This week, in my tutoring session with Sean, our first student, Cole, was absent, as he was traveling with the football team. Our second student arrived right on time, informing us that he had a 2 page paper due for one of his economics classes on Momday. He went on to explain that he was a senior, and as an economics major, he works mostly with numbers, so he hadn't written a paper in two to three years. He took the lead & offered to read us the prompt and then the paper aloud. Throughout his reading of the paper, he was periodically marking things with a pencil and crossing things off, mumbling to himself that something didn't sound right or was misspelled. At one point, the student asked Sean if his point was clear, and I honestly had no idea what the student was saying in the paper (considering I know nothing about economics), so I had no idea how I would've responded in that situation. Sean was brilliant though, suggesting that if the student was unsure of whether or not he was being clear enough, he could just explicitly state his idea at the end of the paragraph, as a, "Thus, this is what I am trying to say here," statement. This was a great breakthrough moment for me, and I am positive that I'll remember this for whenever I get a student whose subject I am unfamiliar with. After the student read through the rest of the paper, Sean suggested a few things to help make the paper more cohesive, and then the student went on his way, seeming very confident. This was definitely a clear cut, ideal tutoring session.