Tutoring
this week was slightly easier than it usually is as all three of my tutees
brought nearly finished drafts to be reviewed this week. I find nearly finished
drafts to be the easiest to work with because usually the writer has had some
time to reflect on their writing to have more of an idea of what they want to
talk about in tutoring. Most of the time tutees are more aware of problem areas
after they’ve had to review their writing at least one other time.
The first
student I tutored this week was working on her second draft of a very open
essay. The teacher had essentially assigned them to talk more in depth about a
subject the class had talked about. The essay was honestly on the side of
poorly written as it contained numerous redundancies and was very confusing as
far as organization went. I started with the redundancies by asking the writer
what they had intended to say in certain paragraphs and then pointing out
details that could be more useful than any repeated points were. Then I went
back and helped the student outline a more coherent essay organization and
brainstorm a more strongly worded thesis.
The second
person I tutored had a group project that she wanted me to look at her contribution
for. This essay was very well written already and only needed to have certain
sentences cleared up slightly. Overall this was an easy essay to critique and
required very little to be fixed.
The third
student I tutored this week also had a very well written essay that needed very
little to be looked at. The few suggestions I felt I needed to make were to
break up a few run on sentences and to add a little punctuation to help clarify
a few sentences that really needed commas.
One last
thing I noticed across the board for my tutees was a lack of confidence in
citations. As this is something I share I felt it was important to bring up in
these reflections. I directed all students to Perdue OWL and went through their
citations with them using the website to show them how it works.
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