Second Shadowing

Shadowing with Sarah on November 16^th at 6 pm

My first day of shadowing continued with Sarah as my second tutor shadow, her tutee for today came in with a history paper. This particular tutee wanted help in making her paper flow better, getting a narrow thesis and help on citing her sources correctly. Good thing the writing center has books on different citations styles how very helpful! I noticed that because Sarah received the tutee’s paper beforehand she read it and then printed out the paper with no corrections on it and read the paper allowed to the tutee. While she did this the tutee was able to catch all her mistakes and confusing sentences and was able to help herself more than Sarah was able to help her because she caught the mistakes herself. I think I like this way of helping tutees with their papers, it’s more interactive and definitely very beneficial to them. When we got to the final paper the tutee was able to come up with a more clarified thesis that worked better for her paper. I wonder what would happen if I asked tutees to read their papers to me instead of reading their paper to them. However I could see how this can be a little insulting to them and may not go over that well with them and could lead to frustration but I would still like to try this.