Second Observations

    I got a different tutor this time and she recently took this course. She was a hundred times better. She read the paper out loud and she helped the student construct a better paper. She asked the tutee questions that helped the student generate a different ideas that helped her in her paper. The tutee wanted to go over some grammar issues that she was having and the tutor told her to make a mark where she felt she needed grammar help and when they got a chance at the end of the hour she would go over it.
    The tutee had a good paper it was just that her ideas were scattered all around. So the tutor got a worksheet that helped the student structure her paragraphs correctly. In the worksheet there were boxes and the first line said topic sentence and then in the lines after, it is for the student to write all of the evidence to support that topic sentence. I though that was a good idea because the student was able to to take out her own ideas from the draft and then put it in the worksheet, for example if the topic sentence was for setting then the evidence would be all the sentences in her paper that referred to the setting in the text. It was helpful for the student. she got a lot done and the thesis changed in order to make the paper flow correctly.
   This tutor was good at helping the student, she didn't tell her that the student's work was wrong or that that paper made no sense she was able to help the student think of her own ideas and come up with better explanation and she even help the student organize her own paper correctly by using the worksheet.