Victoria Jones TS #9 and 10

Tutoring Session #9 and 10 Ailin Xia
Date: October 12, 2017
Topic/Skill: Writing an Article Critique


Ailin expressed concern to me about her reading final project on writing an article critique. I had briefly helped her with similar questions on shorter article critiques in the past. I find it very interesting that Ailin thrives in speaking and struggles in reading, while Mohammad is the exact opposite. I’ve really enjoyed these varying viewpoints because it has made me understand that each student has their various advantages and disadvantages in the classroom and each should be approached differently. I was able to proofread Ailin’s one page typed critique and chat with her about the reasons for a few of my corrections or questions I had written on the side of the text. Overall, I believe she benefited from my direction proofreading because she said that is what she wanted and she wants to know exactly what is appropriate or awkward in her writing. I tried to be as descriptive and constructive as possible, while also noting a few of the things she thrived in.

I completed a second draft review and had a separate conversation with her about continued improvements on critiquing articles. This took time to actually review the paper and also relay my information and corrections back to her. All and all this took close to two hours for this assignment total which is why I designated this as two tutoring sessions. 

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