Blog Questions

Hello guys! Well, this is my first blog of the semester, kind of nervous. Last week my professor gave my class two questions to answer:

  - What makes a tutorial successful and what are we looking for as we begin our observations next week?

  - What are the common points between what makes for good 'teaching' and what makes for 'good writing'?

I will provide you guys my answers to these questions.

1. In my opinion what makes a tutorial successful is when both the tutor and tutee feel comfortable; there shouldn't be tension between both peers. But at the same time you shouldn't feel that comfortable where you guys go off topic and go on asking questions or talking about your personal life that doesn't have to do with the paper the tutee had brought into the tutoring session. The tutor and tutee should feel comfortable to a certain extent. They should both feel comfortable to be able to revise the paper together. There are a couple of things I will be observing next week in the writing center. Some of the things I will be looking at are the ways the tutor talks to the tutee and he/she approaches the writer when they find something wrong with their paper. I will also observe how the tutor gives suggestions to the writer and how and what questions to ask regarding their work piece. 

2. Some of the common points that makes a 'good teaching' and what makes a 'good writing' is:

      - get involved in the subject (because if you get involved in the subject even if you don't know much about the subject, the relationship between tutor and tutee would be mutual which would make the tutoring session smother.)

      - strict but friendly (because you can not be so friendly with the tutee because you might go off topic in the tutoring session; you should be strict so the tutee takes you serious because most likely you as the tutor, the tutee might be around the same age as you.)

      - good communicators (because you both have to communicate in order to revise the work piece together, it should be a A & B conversation, not just A or just B.)

      - listens and responds (because this relates to being good communicators. Especially as a tutor, you have to be able to listen and respond to the tutees questions.)

Well, these are my responds towards both questions my professor assigned. Have a GREAT day guys!