Wensis Aviles

11-17-14

                On Wednesday I got to work with a Student from an Eng101 class. The student picked discrimination against gays and lesbian. Although the student gave great details the paper itself had to be adjusted. The student had gotten some main ideas down but needed to give more details. I gave the Student a good advice, I told her never leave the reader guessing. I told her it’s like being in a conversation with someone and you go on and on about a specific topic without giving detail. For example I can say I dislike ice cream. But I am not telling you why. Was it a specific flavor or in general? Was I allergic? What made me dislike ice cream? This is the detail I wanted the student to understand sometimes giving example about a simple topic can expand the writers thinking.

                The student also watched a movie and talks a little about it in the beginning and jumps into research and statistic. I told the student I will like to know more about the movie then statistic and research although it was good evidence not really complete. The student talks about the movie two pages later. I told her when you start a paper think about it as a table of content you always want to let the reader know what you will be discussing before putting your thoughts down in writing or typing. What is the beginning middle and end? I told the student I took public speaking before you always want the reader to have some kind of feeling or compassion to your paper. That goes back to ethos, pathos logos.

Wensis Aviles

10-27-14

                                                                       My Tutoring Session

                I was working with a young man English is not his first language. He had problem expanding his thought because he has not been exposed to the idea of immigration. I believe he had problems with what’s right and what’s wrong basically what’s missing on his paper. He was able to talk about a man who is an immigrant working construction, that’s was  all and moved on to the next sentence the teacher had already told him to elaborate more on the man working construction. I was able to ask him question on what he thought about immigration had he watched movies, read history books, and watched the news. All of what I asked him is sources he can use to expand his thinking. I told him that sometimes when I write I think of words that I may have seen in a dictionary although it sound write I keep it in the essay look up the word and make it fit. I do this because I may have heard this word before or seen this in books this helps me expand my thought. I told him get familiar with words because you can shorten some of your sentence and make it fit.

                I explain to him when writing any kind of essay stay on track don’t jump right into another topic without finishing the first. Ask yourself question did I leave something unanswered. If I was the reader would I be satisfied with what I written. Never say I go there be specific and say where exactly.

                Over all his was good not so much of a hoc he just needs to be exposed to vocabulary or watching movies.  

Wensis Aviles

10-27-14

                                                                       My Tutoring Session

                I was working with a young man English is not his first language. He had problem expanding his thought because he has not been exposed to the idea of immigration. I believe he had problems with what’s right and what’s wrong basically what’s missing on his paper. He was able to talk about a man who is an immigrant working construction, that’s was  all and moved on to the next sentence the teacher had already told him to elaborate more on the man working construction. I was able to ask him question on what he thought about immigration had he watched movies, read history books, and watched the news. All of what I asked him is sources he can use to expand his thinking. I told him that sometimes when I write I think of words that I may have seen in a dictionary although it sound write I keep it in the essay look up the word and make it fit. I do this because I may have heard this word before or seen this in books this helps me expand my thought. I told him get familiar with words because you can shorten some of your sentence and make it fit.

                I explain to him when writing any kind of essay stay on track don’t jump right into another topic without finishing the first. Ask yourself question did I leave something unanswered. If I was the reader would I be satisfied with what I written. Never say I go there be specific and say where exactly.

                Over all his was good not so much of a hoc he just needs to be exposed to vocabulary or watching movies.  

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   I believe what makes a good tutoring session is a welcoming environment also the people working in that environment.Tutors should be professional and not make a student feel uncomfortable or dismissive to their assignment.The tutor should also tell the student what they need help with instead of praising them at all points.They should also point out what the students struggle with and be able to give them work sheets to help them with words or vocabulary,past present,future, subject and verb.
These where given out while I did all my four observation the tutors where very professional and one even looked like he was a student that goes to LaGuardia Community College himself, making a Student feel like he can relate on certain levels because most essay that are given by professors are based on life experience and i think Moffet will agree.

my final observation
        I got to work with Nathen at the writing center. He also teaches at LaGuardia along with his boss Bert.One of Bert's old student came in and Nathen recognized her from the grammar class he had taught. English is the students second language so i strongly believe since the student got to work with Nathen a lot of his teaching came into play. I saw that there was a lot of red circle markings on her paper.
and the reason for the marking was the subject + verb.
    She kept repeating they,and he wanted to know who? is she talking about, and what were the person doing since the student was only talking about one person,The student needed to know the difference. He had a fun game which was to find how many subject she needs and verbs and who can be joiners. Joiners join sentences this method puts words together.
   Nathen had an example: saying Dog who ran? and ask her whats missing.this sentence needs more information. she was able to identify that its missing something.the second example :Dog who ran was big.This final sentence made the sentence complete.He also had her work on vowel sound like A, E, I, O, U,. and explained the difference between "I" sound   "Bite and Hit" . He had explain to her that sometime sound can make the word seem longer but they are not spelled the way we pronounce them like cap and cape to different word and spelling. Nathen gave her a tip he said  "don't rely on the article use her own words" she was able to explain what the article was about and he ask her if she agrees that music relieves stress and she was able to state her opinion and refer to passed experience. He said that she can use her past experience as an example that would be helpful. Student also had to many quotation marks. I believe this was an HOC although Nathen was able to understand what she had written she needed to add who she was talking about and what did the person do.

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     my third visit to the writing center
          I got to work with Carlos he had explained to the student who i was and why i was there.The student didn't mind i don't think she had a choice.The main concern with the students paper was everything. This was a high order of concern. Although the student had explain to Carlos the reason she chosen to write in such form was so that the reader can get an understanding of the book, the author, and her topic,.Carlos read her paper aloud he said this will help and it did because he was able to tell her and give her example of a ways she can start it out she needed her own opinion and ways to start her theses. But the student felt very strong about her paper. Her paper was about the virtue of Selfishness. Carlos asked her  if he can see the assignment and there was the answer all along in a format that the teacher laid out for his/her students to follow.Although she has quotations from the book she needed to lay down her arguments and the reason she choose those quotes. Carlos gave her a rules for writers must have topic sentence,write the paper,read the paper aloud, and finally what the paper is about. the to do was what should come first, middle and end and fix fragmented sentence and make sure she knows subject,verb gave her a tip that her opinion is going to come into play in the introduction and conclusion.
      In the end the student saw a way to arrange her paper. She also had a better understanding of the format. I learned that you have to take your time with the student when they have strong feelings and is showing you good parts of the paper.

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            My second observation at the writing center was great i had got to work with ashly once more.Ashly encounter a low order essay.The essay was about how age makes you more experienced and the student seems to state her argument.Ashly read to herself didn't seem to find any error beside a missing comma. She ask the student what do you think you need to improve on and the student was able to show ashly. Ashly agreed and told her to add more details to what she will be adding and to make it broad.
        The student also wanted to know when its the right time to put commas but besides that everything seems nice and clear.

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      My Experience at the writing center.
    my name is Wensis Aviles and I am majoring in Childhood Edu. The reason I wanted to major in Childhood edu is out of the love I have for Children's, and i also love to read to children's. My trip to the writing Center was great I got to work with Ashly. She was awesome I got an opportunity to ask her questions based on her experience and what kind of students come in. She tell me that most secondary english speaking students follow directions and are good writers because of the language differences.I got to see her in action with a student she did not make the student feel uncomfortable she was very welcoming the way she asked the student questions about the paper was very professional.Ashly gave the student work sheet to work on past, present and other work sheet to strengthen him on his writing.