tutoring

Yeah, i am in the writing center. Me and my partner have been here for like 35 minutes and we have not had anybody to tutor today. Which i am not mad about because i can still observe the other tutors. I really think that this is a very good experience for me. Although we only had one tutee i still enjoyed it! I wish we could have tutored her a little longer because she needed more help but we were running out of time! Her paper was due the next day, so we had told her that she should get a head start on her paper and come to the writing center a little early instead of waiting at the last minute! Yeah, i am pretty sure we all experienced that last minute thing! But tutoring so far has not been that bad at all. At first, i really didn't want to do it, i was about ready to drop the class but it is very helpful!

The reading....

For homework on Thursday we had to read "Bartleby". Personally, i really do not like the story. It is kind of boring. Bascially, it is about these four workers with four different personailities. Bartleby is a very lazy worker! His famous line is "I would prefer not to". Bartleby is a very strange character! He is weird! He is always at work he basically live there! He have no social life really! He need a life ! Oh yeah, in class last Thursday we discussed feminist criticism. Whenever i hear "she is a feminist" i just automatically assume that she hate men . I know all do not hate men but some can be a little easy on some. From the readings we had read i can tell that the author was a feminist in the story "story by the hour" it was very obvious.

Man it is very hard to keep up with the blogs (topic wise)

Today in class we brought our rough drafts for this culture icon essay! Thank god it is over because that took a lot of hard work! it was hard finding a topic to write about. Well we had four people in our group and we all rotated the papers so everyone can have a chance to look at each other's paper! They all had good topics and a lot of good information. I feel pretty confident about my paper though. I believe that peer editing is a very good idea! It is very helpful and it can teaches us new things about writing! Well after class we went to the Pizza hut that is open in the student center! So far it is good!! Oh yeah i have another Biology and Math exam on friday!!!

first!

Well, i am in the writing center about to leave. Today was our first day tutoring somebody! i was very excited to get somebody to tutor! The person we helped was a Eng 1010 student. She was so confused about her own paper that she had written. When we will ask her what is she trying to say,she really could not respond with a clear answer. She had good information but she needed more details about some information. She also needed a thesis, which she had formed eventually. Her paper was almost like the one we did in class that day! She had major grammar errors which really made the paper hard to read. So we had her read the paper out loud and she was stumbling on her own paper. She need to go back to the basic things about grammar. I refered her to the English handbooks so she can look up a variety of things. I think we helped her a lot and I'm glad she feel a lot better about her paper.

today in class

Today in class we discussed Popular Culture. I'm glad we discussed this because it helped me better understand popular culture. I needed the help because now i have a better understanding about the Popular Culture Icon essay. Thanks to the article on e-reserves and the class discussion today i understand what is popular culture. On Weds. we had a lot of snow and when our Biology class started they did not even shovel that part!! We had to walk in all that snow! Wayne State should have canceled classes for that day or at least the morning classes because all the snow was not plowed! Good thing i only had one class!

Me and my partner are currently in the writing center waiting for a Tutee. Hopefully, we will get somebody to tutor because I am ready to help somebody. It kind of suck when you don't have nobody to tutor. I guess for now on i will bring some homework to do while we wait for a student to show up looking for help. Last week Thursday we were assigned a popular culture icon essay to do. It is pretty hard to find a popular culture icon to write about. We have a rough draft due this Thursday and i haven't really found anything to write about. I emailed the teacher asking her can i do a certain popular icon, so i am just waiting for her response so i can start the essay. Oh yeah last week we talked about the reading we had read for that week and i fully understand the second story we had to read!

p.s.Sorry for your family loss Mrs.Wilson!

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Man, it is tooo cold outside! Sometimes i just don't feel like getting out the bed to go to class but i do it anyway, since i am paying for it! Anyways, for homework we had to read "The Lottery". At first i was confused and i thought the story was stupid because i really didn't understand! When i was done reading the story i understood it! That was a very mean thing they did to that lady. The other story we had to read i really didn't understand it. I understand the made new amendments for the future but i still didn't get it! I guess we will discuss it in class! Oh yeah, in class on Tuesday we received our papers back from our presentation and our paper about our tutoring collage! We received an A and an A- !! i am very satisfied about that! Me and my partner worked hard!

The Writing Center

Today me and my partner went to the writing center for an hour. We meant a nice GTA named Mike. We observed him for about 20 minutes then his tutee left. After that Mike was telling us more about tutoring and a lot of other stuff too! The Writing center didn't have a lot of students in there. It started off kind of loud then like ten minutes later it quiet down. I am kind of excited about this tutoring thing! i can't wait until we can tutor a student! Me and the tutee can benefit from this! At first i was going to drop this class because i didn't want to tutor but then i decided to keep it because it can be a good experience.