Friday, July 12, 2013
First Observations
So on Monday, I went to the writing center to observe a tutor, tutor a tutee. I did not like my mentor at all. I felt like he was annoyed by the student's work and I think the student also felt the tutor's annoyance. The tutor was literally slouching on the table, playing with his fingers and he literally told the student, "why would you write this as your thesis?" Honestly, I thought tutors were there to help the students better their work not tease them about what they have written already. He continued telling the student how his paragraphs didn't connect to the thesis and the student sort of replied with attitude saying "Okay I understand that but I'm here to get a better grade on the paper not for you to tell me what I did wrong." I would never get my paper revised by this man if I were that student because he was no help at all. He was just pointing out every mistake out on his paper, rather than helping the student organize the paper. He was also restating all of the teacher's comments which was, in my opinion, not necessary because I'm pretty sure the student had already read the comments so I don't understand why he would restate them or point them out again. This tutor literally did everything the "Do's and Don'ts" video said not to do.
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