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Expectations
- Your tutor will ask you to identify your concerns about the writing to establish priorities for the conference and to choose an agenda that can be accomplished well within the time frame.
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Your tutor may ask you to read the paper aloud; ( If you are an International student, your tutor may ask you to listen carefully when he or she is reading your paper aloud).
- Your tutor will ask you questions as a reader. For example, he or she may ask you the following questions:
- What was the assignment that the teacher gave?
- What is the best thing that we can work on right now ?
- What do you see as the thesis or main idea of your paper?
- What was your plan for organizing it?
- Are there parts of your paper that you have concerns about?
- Are there parts of your paper that you are especially happy with?
- What are the main things that you want advice or feedback about?
- If you need help with spelling, punctuations, usage, or correcting grammatical errors, your tutor will show you how to find such errors and correct them by carrying out some of the following activities:
- Pointing out an example or two of the error within the draft;
- using handbooks or other reference materials to clarify the principle;
- asking you to work on worksheets;
- asking you to work on a writing center computer that has software programs that deal with many of the issues that come up.
- If you are an International Student, you may find your tutor more directive about grammatical issues, while still operating in a "teaching" mode so that you can generalize the instruction and apply it to other writing tasks. Sometimes your tutor will go over one or two paragraphs with you line by line to help you see errors or weaknesses that are common to your writing.
At the end of the learning activities, your tutor will ask you to identify and correct examples of the error, thus aiding you in developing your own proofreading strategies.