First things first, she took a look at the students paper, of course read it over to try and get an idea of what the paper will be about. I noticed that in every session I have attended, every tutor reads the paper before they start doing any other work. The student had some grammar issues and some corrections needed to be made. Corrections like spelling, past tense, when to add commas and how to start a sentence in a more proper way. When i noticed that the tutor informed her about this issues, I remembered that in class correcting errors on a writers work was not something they should start doing right away. The tutor instead needs to encourage the writer to revisit the piece of writing not throw her off by telling her right away that you have grammar issues. When i begin observing, I will not address the issues right as soon as i read the paper because than the student will feel discouraged and feel like their paper is not good enough. Eventually the tutor will find a way to tell the student about the errors, but at a later time.
The paper the student had written was about a personal experience her friend had gone through and her friend getting into trouble. When the tutor told the student to get more into detail about it, the student said that it was too revealing for her to talk more about it. In a way at that point i noticed that the student was a little uncomfortable, even though the tutor didn't mean for that to happen. The tutor told the student that she didn't have to get too personal about her paper but at least try to expand the paper more. It was a great thing that the tutor continued to encourage the student to expand her paper more instead of just ending it on the note of saying don't add anymore details.
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