In my session as a student Dr. Chandler helped me through fixing some of the problems in my response essay. My first problem was that I hadn't read the assignment. And after she advised me to give it a quick read, I saw some of the problems and began to correct them. I needed to find a focus for my summary. After I did that, everything fell into place. Organization and structuring were next and then i had to find content to fit within the main ideas I had choosen for my response. Together, Dr. Chandler and I came up with some examples that fit nicely with the point I was trying to make. I learned that some of the methods discussed in the book are helpful. Reading and writing to the assignment as outlined by the textbook is definatley the most important and should be the first step for any tutor.
As a tutor I helped a student who had some organization issues. Her content was misplaced and some of it needed to be ommitted. She needed to tailor her response to the focus of her summary. Actually, the problem she was having was the same ones I had. The book mentioned that in tutoring, the tutor benifits even more than the student. I found this to be true in this session as I picked up on her mistakes and imidiately recognized that they were the same ones that occured in my writing.
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