Thursday, October 9, 2014
My third observation
During this observation session, the tutor introduced himself, after he did that, he went straight to one of the tutees paper, just like last time, it was two tutees. one of the tutees jus wanted the tutor to help her make corrections, her professor revised her paper already, she just wanted to change some of the words to words that sounded better. She kept using the same words over and over. the tutor told her, her professor basically wants her to be more specific, and to add more details. I thought it was cool that he gave her a tip at the end of the session, he told her when writing, don't be too vague, try to give an experience. He then went to the next tutee, her essay was already done, he read her paper and told her to add more, elaborate. I take it her paper was confusing a little bit because he kept asking her what she meant when she said this and that. While he talked to her, the other tutee picked up a phone call, I thought that was rude. This particular tutor looked like an expert. I could tell he knew exactly what he was talking about. at the end of the session, he gave the tutees, which I realized was from the same class a paper which held a question they had to write about and bring back to the writing center. I could tell they liked him, they asked when they come back, could they get him instead, he gave them his name and said ok.
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Interesting presentation here, but we'd like to see more details. What did the assignment actually ask? What's an example from the session that explains some of the strategies you witnessed? How did you know the tutor was an expert? Details!
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