This week I tutored three very different people. The first student I tutored was an international student from Japan. She wanted me to look over her paper for grammatical errors specifically. Her paper had to do with a topic I was unfamiliar with which made things a little more difficult but I think as a whole we were able to work out most of the grammar issues. Being an international student, she didn't have a good grasp on the difference between present tense and past tense. Her sentences would oftentimes switch back and forth between the two and we had to work through that issue. She was extremely patient with me while I was trying to explain the difference between these two types of tenses and seemed to have a better grasp on it when she left the RWC. I really enjoy working with International Students because they are oftentimes much more open to learning new things than those who are forced to come to the RWC. International Students always seem eager to learn about our language and are truly interested in bettering themselves.
The second student that I tutored was a girl who was taking a Religions course. Her paper compared and contrasted aspects of Christianity with some of her course readings. Her paper was a research paper essentially only using materials that they had read in class. Overall she had decent structure and grammar but she really wanted me to focus on her citations. Being only a little bit familiar with in-text citations, we both looked up the proper MLA format for in-text citations and incorporated this style format into her paper. She left the session feeling as if she had a better grasp on these citations.
The last person I tutored was another International Student who wanted me to look over her paper for her accounting class. The paper was not really a paper, but more of a systemized data analysis of a local car dealer. It was very complex she was able to break it down for me slightly. Overall her paper was good from what I could tell with my lack of knowledge of statistical analysis. She did have some grammar issues and also formatting issues but overall her paper seemed to be pretty good.
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