11/4 Response

This week I only had one tutoring session because my first student was a no-show.  However, I did still have a good experience with my other student.  This student was a freshmen in an ENC course.  Her project was to create a website addressing stereotypes of a major other than hers.   She chose to make her website about music majors.  I thought this was a pretty complex project for a freshmen English class, so I was definitely interested in seeing what she had already.  Aesthetically, her website looked pretty great.  She did, however, lack some depth in her information on music majors.  This was addressed by her instructor in their meetings, and that was mainly what she wanted to work on in the session.  I read through what she had so far, and while she did a really good job of finding and incorporating quotes into her website, she never expanded on any of these quotes.  I tried to coax out of her what she thought about these quotes and stereotypes.  She didn't seem to have too much of an opinion because she thought the project was kind of weird, but she did understand that she just can't pull quotes from her readings.  She understood that she needed to add some of her own content to the conversation.  I also explained to her that as an outsider seeing her project for the first time, it was kind of confusing.  Because she didn't thoroughly explain her quotes, I didn't really understand any of them.  I got her to explain why she incorporated each quote and why it was important to each section.  I explained that she needs to assume that someone visiting her website knows nothing about her subject.  To convey her point, she's going to need to expand further on each idea so it is clear to everyone viewing her website.  I then went over the rubric with her.  As far as quotes, aesthetics, and flow, she was fine.  I explained that the content she was missing probably fell under voice, how she felt about the subject.  During the session, she was able to write down a lot of her thoughts so she could remember them later when she adds more content to the website.  She then asked if there were any grammatical errors in her website.  There definitely wasn't anything major, but I did explain the difference between the noun "effect," and the verb "affect" because she did happen to use those words a lot throughout her website, and most uses were incorrect.