People finally came to me for FYS help! Two students came to my office hours today to go over their nine-page papers that they have due tomorrow, and voila, i recieved help from them as well!
I realized how truly different writing can be from student to student. Students do not come to tutors just for grammar help as some of our readings have mentioned. One boy came today with tons of research, but not one thought on paper. He needed help organizing his ideas and narrowing his thesis. I helped him brainstorm for a while and told him to come back to me with his introduction (since he was writing in the library anyway). Two minutes after he left, another student came to me! I was so excited to finally do something! The second student had his paper entirely done: well written, organized, strong thesis, but NO citations or scholarly sources. It seemed as though the two students had the exact opposite problems!
As much as I have read and studied tutoring and mentoring this semester, I still learned so much through helping these two very different writers.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
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