My first tutoring experience went very well. I started off by introducing myself to the student, reading his paper out loud and commending him for the good paper. It was a good paper because he stayed on topic for the most part and used the factual evidence that was needed. After I read the paper I noticed that for a couple of his paragraphs the topic sentence was not clear therefore, I remembered the tutoring and writing readings and  used the strategy of one-sentence summary. This way he told me which point he was trying to get across, and he also wrote it down as a reminder. From here, I helped him reorganize the sentences so that his topic would be more clear to the reader. Once this was done, I  asked him which parts of his essay did he think he can better on. The strategy of Nutshelling and teaching is very practical because he was able to point out the weaknesses of his essay in which I too agreed were the weak points and the major. Since they are asked to write an example that can relate to the article the teacher had wrote a comment on his paper that his example did not go with the article. I had him focus free write about how does he think the illegal immigrants from China effect Japan's economy, since he was born there. This is were the ideas started flowing and he got excited because he said he did not think about the similarities Japan shares with the United States. He was very grateful that I had help him connect hie life experience to the article, now he was even more exited to finish fixing the paper. So for the remainder of the time I helped him with his conclusion. Since he had very little concluding ideas in his conclusion, I asked him to tell me more about the topic why is he so moved that Illegal immigrants do not benefit the economy.

First Observation

Victoria was  helping Wilfredo complete his ENG 101 paper. Victoria began with asking the students what was his purpose for coming into the writing center. He had said he was stuck and did not know what else to write for the essay. It had to be a 600 word essay and since English was his second language he was having a hard time. Also he was having difficulty because he was use to the standard of the ENG 95 exam, and ENG 101's was very different. Therefore, she encouraged him to write an outline of his essay and this helped him a lot. I saw the use of cheerleading, because even though he made many mistakes on his paper she gave him positive feedback him on the part he did well. Then it turned into a therapy session because he was putting himself down since he felt that he was not a good writer. She told him he is not a bad writer and that practice makes perfect, at this moment the biggest smile went across on his face.

Third Observation

My third observation  was nothing like my first two. The tutor first introduced himself to the student, then he read only the first paragraph of the student's paper. The tutor started to write notes without telling the student why certain word needed to be changed. So the session became teacher-centered at first, then the tutor sort of caught himself just focusing on the LOCs and not talking to the student, therefore he changed up his technique and got the student involved. Now the session  became collaborative, and the student seemed excited to work side by side with the tutor. The student read out loud and caught his own mistakes. The tutor maintained a high tone and showed his involvement through his body langue. The student appreciated the tutor so much that he even wrote down the tutor's schedule to go to the writing center only when that tutor is present.      

My second Observation

For my second observation the first thing the tutor did was read the paper out loud, therefore the student found many errors in which he was able to correct on his own. However, the tutor started to criticize the student for his LOCs, and the student began to have a body langue that showed he was embarrassed because of the way the tutor was talking to him. The tutor then added  humor to the  session which lightened up the mood and made the student feel comfortable. He had trouble getting his ideas across so the TUTOR HELPED him arrange his ideas and focus on answering the essay question. What I mostly enjoyed was that the student did not have the essay prompt so the tutor took him to the computer lab in the back and we looked at the essay prompt online therefore, the tutor had a better feel of hat was the essay's topic. Once the tutor read the essay question he was able to help the student tremendously.