First Day of my ENG 101 Tutoring Experience

                                          First Day of my ENG 101 Tutoring Experience

Date: 4/7/2014
Prof: H.

First, when I started to read my writer Introduction, I started to look for the thesis.  His thesis was in the third sentence and ended in the fifth sentences.  I already knew to mind that his thesis was 3 sentences long and that was okay for a 2 ½ pages essay.  His thesis was “Gentrification benefits and develops neighborhoods over time”.

While reading his other two paragraphs and I were looking out for topic sentences, examples, direct quotes, summary, paraphrase and conclusion. On the other hand, while I was reading, I was able to pick out verb tense, run-on, fragment, and etc. I did not fix it right away put I put start to remember where to work on soon as I finish read his essay loud.

I was surprise he have a good Thesis to support his paper but he was lack of Structure, Evidence and Critical Thinking. For example he did not have any summary, paraphrase or examples. He also doesn’t have no example about himself, his neighborhood, the news or pass experiences. When I saw that, I already knew this will affect his grade. Even more, he did have lot of evidence and no direct quotes. In his second body paragraph all his sentences are examples about different neighborhood and statistic but he did not quotes where he got it from. I already knew that plagiarize and he can be in trouble.    

                                                       

So I agree with his thesis, helped him fix some grammatical errors and told him how to organize his sentences (for example, put this sentences here, and move these sentences there). Up top of that, I told him quotes where he got his statistic from (for example, he said “Harlem has change from 2002 to 2013 and crime rate reduce by 60 %”).

 I also showed him where to put direct quotes, when to summarize the quote and when throw in an example. Even more, told him to go to the library and do research on” gentrification “and that will help open his knowledge more. Finally, he does not know how to cite MAL format I show him how too, and I also told him if he need, to know more about MLA format please visit English writing center and ask them for the MLA work sheets.           

At the end I was very curious and I asked him how much time you put into your paper, he said “about 2 hours”. I was like okay. But I will advise him to put another 2-3 hours more into this paper and take another hour to edit before you submit to your professor and I guarantee him that he will have a better grade.