Student Tutoring Session 1

I was given the opportunity to tutor a student from professor Hendrickson's class on Monday. After meeting with the student he let me know that he had just previously took an ESL class prior to taking Professor Hendrickson's course so that his paper may not be all that great. Gentrification was the assigned topic the professor had chosen for them to write a paper on . When I reviewed the students work there was no indication in the speech at all that told me he had any trouble with the language. If he had not spoken to me at all during the session I would have not know that he had any trouble with the English language at all.

while going over the paper what I did notice is that the student kept repeating the word Gentrification over and over again and I know that the professor wanted the paper to have a certain structure, but I felt like the student could have made his point and kept to his topic without having to consistently repeat the word over and over. I felt as if the constant repition of the word was going to keep him from vering off the topic that he was discussing, but I also felt that it was taking away from his paper and the reader would eventually get tired of reading it based on the constant repetittion. Repettion is something that is usually done in poetry to create and emphisis on a word expressed, but in terms of a structuional paper I for didn' think this was good.

I did enjoy reading the drafted paper that was constructed and the student did have a lot say about gentrification. I also took in appreciation that he was able to give me some more insight about what I knew on the topic any way separate from me doing my own research to give him more ideas on his assigned topic. As I continued to read further on into the paper I begin to see the students ideas begin to emerge so I felt it was time to have him bring in some of his own personal ideas on the topic in his own community and that got him talking about the things that he seen in his own neighborhood the went well with his topic. Because he was able to speak in dept about what he saw in his area it was no better way, but to end the session with telling him to use all of what he told me to to the body paragraph of his paper to make it better.

I enjoyed tutoring very much because not only did I get to help a student broaden his thinking. This session also helped me think more and the positive feedback from the student was quite engaging to me and I was happy to have this opportunity to develop the experience to do this.