During my first tutoring session, I must admit I was a little nervous. The student I tutored somehow wasn’t there and got lost. But luckily I was able to help another student, her name is Hannae. I’m not really sure where she’s from but do know she’s Arabic. The first thing we did was look over the article she had to read. I asked her to read it out loud to me. After she was done we went over her revised essay. As I looked over her paper I realized she had some organization problems. I started asking her to give me a summary of the reading. We broke up each part into pieces. She jotted down ideas. I told her the format that would help her was the one we used in class: first always to summarize, state one of the author’s main point of view, giver her opinion, and conclusion. She started jotted down her ideas to organize her thoughts. I could tell she had some organization problems and some minor grammatical problems as well. But overall she had an idea of how and where to start on a paper.
