Third Observation

In my third observation, the student was a lot more comfortable with me being there. There were suppose to be two tutee's and it took about 2-3 minutes for the tutor to come to the cubicle. During that time, the tutee was asking me why I was there and what I wanted to do in my future. She seemed to be a regular because she was filling me in on who the tutor was. Once the tutor was back, the tutee told the tutor right away that the professor wanted her to fix the grammar in her paper. The main focus was LOC's and the tutor began reading the writer's paper right next to her and as they encountered a grammar fix, the tutor pointed to it and explained why it needed to be fixed. Most of the grammar problems were words that were to be placed in past, present or future tense. The writer also gave a good understanding to what was wrong with the grammar and when she did not, she made up examples to help her understand why the grammar was incorrect. The tutor also made it clear and gave good comments when she had one complete page of no grammar fixing to do. After most the grammar was fixed and the writer felt like she didn't have an questions or concerns about her paper, the tutor offered more help. She asked the writer if she would like to take some worksheets home that can help her with understanding grammar better. She told her to do as much as she can and if she wanted to come back with her final paper as well as with the worksheets to get some more feedback, she is more than welcomed. This session was a lot more quicker than the other two because it was LOC's and both the tutor and writer were speaking back and forth rather than the tutor just making corrections.