THIRD DAY OF MY OBSERVATION

THIRD DAY OF MY OBSERVATION

Time: 5:45 – 6:45

Date: 03/27/2014

Topic: “Pick One Immigrant Background and write an essay”

Class: ENG 102

            Both tutor and writer introduce their self to me. Writer and tutor already have a passed relationship because they have work together in the pass. The writer actually requests the tutor at the front desk because they have work on the same paper that we are working on today. However, the writer have a “C +” on his paper and he came back to fix the errors and comments. The professor had told him if he want have a better grade visit the writer-center and fix the paper.

            I already knew to myself that “students and tutors relationship” is occurring at the moment because they had worked together last week on the same paper. Deep down into the conversation the writer really feel comfortable with the tutor body language, voice tone, and his expression because everything they were discussing on the paper the writer seem to smile along with the tutor while there was working. On top of that, they both knew exactly what they are discussing / working on. They both started to speak “Spanish” for a better understand, only if the writer lost at some point. I found that “students and tutors relationship” have a lot to do when tutoring someone in a student-center.

            The tutor and writer started to read lines to lines throughout the essay to fix grammatical errors. Some of the errors are verb tenses, run-on and fragment. He also don’t know where to put commas, how to introduce a quote to develop his argument and how to cite a quote. The tutor asked him “do you know what are MLA and APA Format?” He said “No”. The tutor gives him three work-sheets explaining the differences between MAL and APA format, so now they writer have an idea how to do a better citation. 

            I actually saw this tutors are using “language structures” because he is helping the writer read lines-to-lines, over and over, while revising to help develop ideas and experiences to make his paper stronger.

I also saw the tutor give the writer better vocabulary words to use in his paper, help him develop a better thesis that actually goes with his body paragraphs and help fixes his verb tenses. At the end the session the tutor told the writer I am not promise you an “A” on this paper but you will have a better grade than your last grade because we make everything flow the way it should be.

Then, he also told the writer that we are using the “sandwich method”. He explained the sandwich method to the students. And for those who don’t know what is the sandwich method here is an example below.

Intro, Body, Body and Conclusion.

Topic sentences….

Say something more about the topic sentences….

Introduce Quote…… “   “

Analyze quote…….

Give a Example……

Connect topic sentences in different words and rap the sandwich up together.