Monday, October 27, 2014
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.
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