First Observation

Today was my first observation at the writing center and it went pretty well. There were a lot of students waiting for tutors to take a look at their paper. The tutor i observed had two students each with different subjects, one was an essay on African American literature, the other was focusing on analyzing a poem. With the first student he read the assignment first then focused on one page at a time when it came to the essay. the tutor praise the student saying the paper is great but the first half of the paper the student is not really answering the question. The tutor focus on sentence structure and paragraph structure as well. However he mainly focused on LOC than HOC. The tutor then went to the next student with the poem, he reads the assignment and they talked about the poem and ask what the student thinks are the main points and to focus on those ideas about the poem. He also told him to get away from summarizing the poem and give his opinion. With this student the tutor focus on HOC and structure of the paragraph. In the end the tutor did some good things and things i wouldnt do as a tutor. For the first paper the tutor read it to himself which made things a little akward and boring for the tutee, she was waiting there and playing with her phone. I would have read it out loud as it really brings the tutee into the session, besides when reading to yourself you go in to your own pace and that can be painfully slow. Besides that it was a good first session.