Today was my first tutoring session and it went pretty well. At first I was nervous and scared because I didn’t know what to expect. I thought I wouldn’t know what to talk about for one whole hour but I got through it perfecting fine. I thought I would get someone who didn’t want my help or wouldn’t care about what I had to say. It was actually the total opposite. The tutee I got was really nice and enjoyed my help. We started by introducing ourselves and then we found a room to get started. I asked her if she had her paper as well as the article she had to write about. I first asked what her paper was on and what the article was about. Then I told her to read me the article so we could both hear it aloud. Next, I told her to read the paper she wrote aloud. Her paper was good and she followed the instructions well. After she read me her paper, we went through each paragraph fixing some mistakes and adding things to them. What we really worked on was her conclusion because she basically only had two sentences. So I told her to develop it more and try to connect the conclusion with her introduction and thesis. We spoke about possible things to write and I gave her some examples to play around with. We finally got her conclusion much longer than it was. And she felt confident about it and her whole paper. I really like her personal connection to the article. It interested me the most because I had a personal connection to it as well. She told me that this was the first revision she did and her first paper she did was much longer and it kind of went off topic. She also had the draft with her and let me read it. In fact, she was correct it did go off topic with the article they had to read, but it was good information to use for a different topic. Overall, my experience was great and I enjoyed it. She told me that this was actually the most help she got and she went to the Writing Center three times so far this semester. Out of the three times she went she said only the first session was the most that helped her. I found that to be very interesting and shocking at the same time. I was glad I made a difference and was able to help with the paper. Once the hour was done I suggested if she wanted to send me her second revised paper so I can look over it or for our next session.
