My first tutoring experience

Hey everyone, so today was very interesting because my classmates and I were able to tutor students in an ENG101 class. It was a good first experience, because I got a chance to test the skills that I learned in class and from my own past experiences. Overall, I was comfortable and confident because I knew that I was going to do try my best to help the student that I was paired up with; however, I was a little nervous about how I would go about doing the tasks.

When I met the student,  we both introduced ourselves which is a good way to start a conversation with any new person that you meet. Anne Marie, was the student that I was paired up with and after I sat down we began to talk about her paper. The topic of her paper was about biculturalism, and I asked her her to explain a little about it to me. She said, "it is the study of more than one culture coming together and integrating one another." We both decided that there were both good and bad aspects of being born in the US, and having background customs from other countries. Anne Marie wanted to focus on the bad aspects of being from a certain group and living in America. I asked if she wanted to combine the good and bad things, and she said she wanted to just focus on one theme. She decided to focus on blacks, muslims, and hispanics because she felt they are all the groups that are targeted the most in the US, and talk about the disadvantages that come with it. I noticed that she had a ll of these good ideas but nothing to back it up with, so I played the "why" games, and asked her why she felt those groups were being discriminated, because in any essay the writer has to back up whatever it is they are saying. As she told me her reasons, I wrote them down so we could be organized. Anne Marie had an introduction which was good, because it gave us something to work with and build from there. After she read her intro to me, I told her as writers we need to grab the readers attention, as professor said punch your readers in the face with your opening paragraph.