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Sunday, November 30, 2014

First tutoring session!!

In my first tutoring session I've worked with two students in a ENG099 class. The students are practicing a sample CATW test. I began to read the first tutee's paper and told the second tutee to go over his paper and have questions on his paper ready. According to the professors comments the first tutee needed examples from the text to support her thesis and to clarify his arguments. I began to read her paper aloud which was a challenge due to the vast amount of grammatical errors, she is constantly quick to correct me and repeatedly says "oh, I meant to say..." I am approaching the last paragraph and she finally says that she has a disorder called dyslexia and it is hard for her to get down her thoughts on to a paper. I found it to be very challenging working with two tutee because I find myself assisting with the student with the most consistent errors. As I finished reading her paper I've noticed that her paper do not correlate to the article. As a task I asked her to re-read the article, carefully and jot down ideas the writer is trying to convey and whether or not if you agree or disagree with the author. I move on to tutee #2 and begin to read his paper aloud, overall it was a great piece the only thing was that the student sidetracked and went off topic on a paragraph that the professor also pointed out in her comments. We begin to brainstorm different ideas and topics that can expand on his idea instead of going the wrong path. After finding great informationto add on to his idea, as a task I asked him to rewrite that paragraph and to include the new ideas without going off topic. I go back to tutee #1 and she has written down an idea, "undocumented immigrants contribute greatly to the states and should eventually become citizens" and she writes that she agrees with this. We begin to write an outline for her paper, then professor comes around to give us a 5min warning. I start to give goals to each tutee to do when they reach home so they can receive a successful grade. We say our good byes and begin to head out. Although this first time experience was nerve wracking in the end it felt great helping a fellow student.





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