First Session

My first solo tutoring session went pretty well. I was excited and nervous at the same time, but my mentor was in the same room, so I wasn't too worried. My first scheduled appointment had actually canceled so I ended up meeting with a walk-in who just happened to come in right when my first appointment was to have started. This student had a short story completely written, he was getting close to his final draft, and asked me to read it through and make sure everything was coherent and written well. He didn't want to read it aloud so I read it and made positive notes as I went through. When I got the end was when I took out the notepad and went through some issues that I had found. Some of them were minor like proper punctuation with quotes, so we didn't spend too much time on those. In order to make sure that I understood the story correctly, I had him tell me what the story was about and what he really liked about it and some things that he wasn't sure about it. The things that he thought he did well on were also things that I enjoyed when reading his story, and then the issues that he found were pretty much the same ones that I found. So, we went over those together. He was open about making changes and had a lot of knowledge about what did and didn't work and took in what I said well. My second session actually went a bit long, but it ended up being okay because my third session was a no show. With this second session we were just brainstorming because she didn't have anything written down yet, but she did know what she was writing it on. She had to write a paper in APA style, which I wasn't that familiar on, but I made sure to be as helpful as I could from what I remembered on APA. And then what I wasn't sure about, we looked up. We broke her paper into three sections because it was a biography of someone so we were going by the stages of their life. We then found sources for her to use and figured how to approach the abstract. She has a couple of weeks until the paper is due so she said that she wanted to come back and set an appointment with me to see the progress of her paper.My third appointment did not show up so I hung out at the center while I finished the reports for the students that I did meet with.