Tutor Experience

After completing my first actual tutoring job in the writing center, I'm happy to say that I felt totally prepared for the session. Peer tutoring taught us all of the necessary skills we need to use in the writing center, form the little things like being friendly, to the bigger things like methods of helping certain types of writing. For my tutoring session, I worked with a pair of students on a group paper assignment. One of them was an ESL student, so it was an interesting challenge trying to balance out correcting the grammar with correcting the overall points of the paper. It was a business paper, a topic which I know little about...but I believe I stuck to the specifics we learned in class and did a sufficient job in helping the students out with their paper. I didn't feel as nervous as I thought I would and the session went smoothly overall. Seems like I learned all I needed to from class!

end of semester

I really enjoyed this class this semester, it helped a lot with my writing skills and the Writing Center. I just finished my tutoring session in the writing center and I have to admit it was much easier than I had thought it was going to be. The student I was working with was really engaged and was specific in where she needed help, and she had an interesting paper so that was a bonus too. I'm kind of sad that the semester is over but I am happy that I wont have to read about how to explain the rules of grammar and writing.

Final Story

As I just finished posting my last post I received an email from Dr. Leslie about the short story that I read to you guys in class. He really liked the finished product and thought the begining was much more cohesive and clarified. He also said that the foreshadowing of Mia stealing problems was very insightful--so thanks Ron! And of course, thank you all for listening, I always enjoy reading my work aloud to people who are willing to listen! I really appreciated the advice!

Why I Want To Work at the Writing Center Essay

I just finished my essay about why I want to work at the writing center and am so sad that I will not be able to! As a senior, I will be leaving Siena and unable to join the writing center staff. I regret not being able to take this course earlier--it was always full--because I believe I really would have had a great time being a writing center consultant! Best of luck to all of you who are able to have this great experience next semester!

Research Paper

I'm finishing up my research paper now and I'm happy to say that I found a source that supplied me with tons of solid information. It's from the Writing Lab journal, one a found to be a great source. Before I found this journal, I was having some trouble finding sources and I was mostly basing my paper more on opinion and experience. Now that I have these new sources, my paper flows better and is more factual and I am pleased with the results.

Hopefully this is big enough for everyone to read it, but I was in New York over the weekend and saw this sign.  It was in Times Square and was for Friday’s Restaurant.  The incorrect use of apostrophes reminded me of our class discussion earlier this semester.  Enjoy . . . I guess.

Portfolio

I just finished putting together a large portion of my portfolio and I am amazed at how my writing has improved over the last semester. I went over my work from the beginning of the semester and made drastic improvements. I think the portfolio was a very cool assignment in that we were able look back at our work and improve on it based on the techniques we learned over the semester. Realizing my own mistakes will help me to tutor others.