My very first tutoring session was interesting. I tutored two students and it was a bit challenging for me. Although, two weeks ago I was observing tutors in the Writing Center and they were tutoring two students at once, I made a lot of criticism in my blogs about the tutors not being able to attend both students in an adequate amount of time, I also stated that one tutor was rushing with one student just to attend to the other. As a tutor on Wednesday, it was challenging for me because I had to face the same situation where I had to tutor both students. One of the students were already on track with their work and their essay was good, so good that I didn't really see anything to critique. Consering that there were no HOCs (High Order Concerns) I focused more on the LOCs (Lower Order Concerns) for this paper and even then there weren't much mistakes. After I was done with my first student, I had to attend to the other. His paper on the other hand wasn't as organized and well-structured as the other student. His paper had a thesis but it didn't really stand out in his paper so I had to figure out would be able to make his thesis stand out. The first technique I went was I asked him tell me how exactly he feels on the topic and why he felt that way regarding his topic. I asked him if he could write down his thesis statement for me. After I created an outline for him just to give him more guidance and structure for his paper, I believe it helped him because since he was able to converse his information and ideas with me.
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