Sunday, October 5, 2014

2nd observation

This is my second observation at the writing center and I can say it was so different from the first time I observed. This time it was not one but two tutees, One, a male needed help outlining his paper, making sure everything paragraph talked about what it was suppose to talk about and coming up with a thesis. The other tutee (female) wanted to make sure her essay was good and that she talked about everything she needed to talk about. The first tutee (male) read his paper sentence to sentence and noticed his own grammar mistakes, he told the tutor that he wanted to elaborate more and make sure he talked about what was important, he said his professor told him he could talk about anything he wanted too, he choose to talk about "Obesity" and how fast food restaurants effect obesity, she told him to think hard about how it effects many people and how salads at fast food restaurants are much more money than the cheese burgers, he said that was a thought in his head and he was going to add that as a main idea. After she helped him, she scooted her chair to the female tutee and began to help her, her essay was on another topic, she had her essay on her laptop and the tutor felt it would be best if she printed it out, she told the tutor she didn't feel like it and that she could make the corrections on her laptop, the tutor explained to her the next time she come, she should've a hard copy instead, she also needed help with her thesis, once she read it out loud she noticed all her mistakes, added a couple lines and she was done, the tutor then scooted back to the male tutee, she got up to hand him a sheet of paper, she turned to me and told me the sheet she handed him was a sheet that helped students brainstorm and come up with ideas. once he took the sheet, time was up, he told her he will come back when he thought his paper was done. I wasn't inform if they were from the same class but I think there should be one tutee per tutoring session because sometimes one student can take up the whole tutoring session.

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