My Tutoring Session

Today I tutored with two students from an English 101 class that will remain name less. I started off with one student and he knew what the professor was asking for but he didn't start to write  down anything or gather his ideas. We started of with reading the assignment together out loud (we took turns). After we did that he told me he was for bi cultural and wanted to write about how students benefit from other cultures at school. We took notes as he was reading the assignment I made a check list and then we went through that. Started off with him having ideas on what he wanted his thesis to be and he wrote that down. Then asking him were he was going to get evidence from and all he could think of was the school website I suggested books, surveys asking friends and family, readings from the book in class and he wrote that down. We even talked about topic sentenced and I had to explain what that was and how it has to relate back to his thesis which he understood. His main problem he said was the sources i told him were he can go to get a guideline on how to write sources and he wrote that down.

After a while another student joined our group and I told student one to write down some ideas that could help him write a thesis. While he was doing that I helped student number 2. He came in with a paragraph and I asked him to read that paragraph to me which he did. Then we read the assignment paper over to get a brief idea of what the professor wanted. I did the same steps with him that i did with student number 1. This student knew he was for the bi cultural and that's what he wanted in his thesis. I asked him where does he plan on getting evidence he said the website and that's it. I suggest the readings they have done in class and he said he might do that because he don't have time to read any books or anything else. I also explained he had to have his thesis relate to his topic sentences and he laughed and said I don't usually do that I just write. We went off topic and I asked him what does he usually do when he writes a paper and he said I just write a first draft and type it and that's it.  He likes to get straight to the point which I understand but I told him the more details you have the better the paper will be and the higher grade you get. He said OK but I don't think he really cared.

Both of the students were two different individuals. Student number one was very calm and went with the flow he gave his input and I gave mines. He took notes he wrote down what he wanted he even started to write his thesis and he broke it down were he could have all of his body throughout his thesis (3 examples in the thesis which he will explain through the essay). He made me very proud I hope he does well he was a very nice student. Student number 2 was a totally different person was very loud and happy and funny and sarcastic. He was a chill student he really didn't care and he told me that he just writes and hand his paper in and that's it and that usually work for him he gets 85. He was interesting he came in with a paragraph but refuse to write a thesis if he didn't know the actually definition of bi cultural so i gave him that as a homework to do that was number one to look up the definition of any word he wants to know before he start writing his draft and to work on his thesis and get some evidence. Student number one I told him to get evidence do a lot of research to bring out his essay. Overall the session was very good I had two different experience at once, I learned a lot from both of the students and I hope they learn a lot from me to.