Second Visit

During my second visit to the writing center the tutor's method this time around was very different than the first tutor i observed. This tutor read the paper out loud to the student and focused on low order instead of higher order. I believe reading the paper out loud to the student is very important as it allows the student to hear what mistakes they made and the main point of the paper. While the tutor was reading out loud, he also let the student figure out what words are missing in certain sentences. This was great because it shows the "tutee" doing most of the work instead of the tutor telling her what went wrong. After the end of each page the tutor also praises the good parts of the paper and telling her if she is going in the right direction. The tutor always goes back to the assignment to see if she answered the main question of this paper and looking at feed back from her professor as well. At the end of the session the tutor tells the tutee that her paper has a lot of good information and gave her advice on to always proof read, revive, and to work on fragment sentences. This tutee is a ESL student and because English is not her first language she has to work a bit harder to make her main point understandable. The tutor ended with telling the tutee what he believes is her main point of the paper and to see if her message got across and what was understood that way she knows what to fix and what her paper should sound like.