MY THIRD OBSERVATION!

My third observation was very entertaining I must say. I was able to observe this guy that came in with paper from another psychology class. The tutor was very friendly he introduced himself to the student; they spoke a little bit about the class and began with the session. This student’s paper was about Scarface he was asked to analyze a scene from the movie that he liked. The paper was all over the place and it was a little difficult for the tutor to understand what the student was trying to explain in this paper. He read the paper out loud to the student and he was able to see some of the mistakes he had made with his paper. After reading the paper the tutor explained to the student that his strongest paragraph was the conclusion and that he needed to focus on the beginning of the paper because he had no thesis. The tutor and the student had a great session in my opinion because it was two guys talking about Scarface; the tutor was very engaged in this project and was able to give him a few ideas on how to make his paper better. He advised the student to come into the writing center more often because they can help with strengthen a student’s writing especially when the students comes in the writing center with previously graded papers from a professor.  One thing that stood out to me was that the student was slouching in his seat and at one point had his chin on the table. I took this as a sign that he was not really interested in this paper but once the tutor found a way to get him more involved in the session , it went great.