First Tutoring Experience

Meiyin Hago

Professor Justin Rogers-Cooper

ENG220.0908

 

Class Agenda 5.4

First Tutoring Experience

In my first tutoring experience, the student wrote about the low paid salaries that immigrants, teenagers and undocumented people receive in fast food companies. She has sort of an idea about the topic unfortunately she did not have enough evidence to support her statements. The students mostly referred what she has experienced when she used to work in a fast food company such as Burger King. I told her that she needed to refer to the textbooks that the professor requested and the articles that were required for the assignment.

She had good ideas about her topics as well as good separations about each paragraph. The student had well-structure topic sentences about what she wanted to write in each paragraph. She separated each paragraph to talk about immigrant people with lower salaries, teenagers with an over exploitation in the workplace, and illegal people with mistreatment and low rate salary in the workplace. I loved that the student classified by those kinds of categories and had the idea to talk about each one group by separated. I helped the student to identify her thesis statement. She needed to have a clear thesis about the topic that the she explained.

My advice was that she needed to explain in the thesis what kind of people she was referring to, she kindly had that in the paragraph but she needed to explain in her thesis as well as the kind of difficulties that group of people experienced. The student was thinking about what I said so I told her to write down those thoughts on paper. The student followed my advice and the student was more confident with writing down her thesis statement.

The strategies I used were Focused Free Writing and Oral Composing. Those strategies that I learned in my ENG220 in the textbook Tutoring Writing is what I believed were very useful in my first tutoring experience due to the fact that the student grasp the information immediately and the student compromised to write down her thoughts on a sheet of paper. The Focused Free Writing strategy is based on the development of new ideas that the student writes down without expecting spelling or grammar, just those free thoughts that the student remember about the textbooks that was previous read it. As well as the Oral Composing strategy that refers to bring to the student to shape relevant ideas about the development of the topic. I suggested using the library media resources to find articles that the professor requested to be used in the assignment.

The next tutoring experience, I will utilize a different strategy in order to study deeply what would be the best strategies to make the tutoring even more successfully to meet the student’s writing goals and perspectives. The strategies that I would like to apply in the next tutoring session experience would be the Mapping and Playing your Thoughts strategies in the Tutoring Writing textbook learned in class. The Mapping strategy is a visual writing technique that helps the writer to visualize the relationship of specific words that the writer wants to talk about such as the word police station and then crumble this word in pieces such as policeman, detectives, and thieves to give an example. In Playing your Thoughts strategy, this denotes kind of similar than, Mapping, this is the brainstorming thoughts.