Fouth Writing center obsverations

I went to my final writing center observations, this one was the best one I observed. The student requested this tutor, and this tutor was perfect for her. The one thing was different about this observation/session was that we were in the computer lab. The student had her assignment on a flash drive. The tutor was mindful of time and helped the student, she helped with taking out parts of the paragraphs and putting them other places where it would fit better. She also spent the shortest time on grammar. She spent the most time helping the student with fixing the paragraphs organization and helped the student organize her ideas better. Since the student had the assignement on her flasdrive and they were looking at it from the compute she was able to edit it during the session, rather then having it on paper and having them go home or elsewhere to add the edits in which I think the sudent liked because she was able to get it done during the session and she finished all that she had to in that one session. The student felt much better after the session she felt more confident. I had a very informative experience at my writing center observations. Overall my observations at the writing center have been helpful for me, I learned what to do, different techniques, and what works best for students.

Third Writing Center Observations

I went to the writing center for my third tutoring observation. This tutor had two students with her in this session. both of these students were in the same class with the same professor but different section, there assignments were the same. One of the students had the same tutor in a previous session so the tutor geared more towards that student and left the other student just sitting around. She asked the student that she was more familiar with more questions and spent more time with her the tutor was happy because the student listened to her and she loved the essay that she had corrected. The tutor gave her more advice and fixed more of the grammar issues. which is Low- Order Concerns in "Tutoring Writing". When the tutor noticed the time she switched over the next student, and that student needed more help she was lost with the assignment, and the tutor looked at the paper fixed some grammar issues and then she ran out of time. Responding-to late in Tutoring Writing. The tutor didn't have enough time to help the student with the rest of the paper. I look forward to the next observations.

Second Writing Center Observations

This Observation session was much better then the first one. this tutor was very nice and supportive. The student brought the assignment requirements and they started to read her paper, she underlined ideas and fixed her sentence structure. The students paper was all over the place and didn't have good organizations skills with her writing. So the tutor helped a lot with that. The student wrote down everything that the tutor said. She also looked very satisfied. Although I feel like the tutor paid too much attention on the grammar, and didn't focus on the rest of the assignment that she had, this relates to Low-order concerns, because the tutor just fixed grammar and sentence structure and nothing else for the paper. The tutor finished the session earlier then what she expected. I look forward to the next two sessions.

First Writing Center Observations

I went to my first observations this week and I found it very interesting, when I arrived I observed a tutoring session with two students. The tutor was very friendly and supportive of each writers work. Each students were new and moved here from another country. The students brought the assignment requirements to the tutoring session so the tutor started to look at that first. Then the tutor took turns in 10 min intervals to look at each students work. It was like the tutor was bouncing from one student to another. each student took notes for what the tutor was telling them. And most of the time the students where just looking and not really doing anything when the tutor was working with the other student. Through out the session the tutor would go off topic and ask the students about their home lands, and their county. I feel like he spent most of his time talking about the students lives. When he would realize that that he would got off topic he would ask more questions and continue to read the students essay's. He helped with the students grammar, spelling and sentence structure, After the students did not have enough time to get all of the work done that she wanted to so she had asked if she can come back for another session and the tutor said she cant. That has to do with the responding to late in tutoring writing.  I Look forward to my other observations, to see if its different or better.

Blog Video Review

In class we watched videos about different writing center. Basically the video showed what to expect when you go to the writing center for tutoring and for help with your paper. These videos displayed a lot on content and information about the writing center. There were some useful and not so useful strategies that were discussed in these videos. Some useful strategies would be: The Tutor helps the writer with his or her paper, The Tutor is positive to the writer and tries his or her's best with the paper, The Tutor tries to remain calm at all times. if the tutor sees that someone plagiarize he or she should try to get the writer to understand his/her mistake with out getting the writer upset.

Video Response

1) Based the Writing Center videos, what makes a tutorial successful and what are we looking for as we begin our observations next week?

What makes a touting session successful is that the tutor needs to be engaged and interested in helping the student The tutor needs to be positive and knows what to say to help you. He/she doesn't make you feel like you have done something wrong. For an example in the video the student had one day to write the paper, and the tutor tried his best to help her and didn't speak negatively to her. When I begin my observations in the writing center I will be looking for tutors that are interested in helping the student and that are positive.

2) What are the common points between what makes for good 'teaching' and what makes for 'good writing.'

The common points that make for good teaching, and for good writing is to have good communication and not only negative feedback but also positive feedback. In order to have good writing skills. Good teaching skills need to present.