So the first tutoring session has come and gone. My thoughts? My biggest worry going into the session came to reality when my tutee, Liang, didn't show up with a paper for us to review. He did have the assignment and article so we started the session by reading the article. I asked questions about what the main idea of the article and what did he write about. I tried helping my tutee develop his ideas and work on his thesis. He was interested in transitional phrases and words so the last 15 minutes of the session was spent on that.
I was surprised at how fast the session went. We could have easily spent another 30 minutes talking about his paper that wasn't even there. I think I was able to help Liang improve his paper. I gave him my email to send me his draft of the paper so I could read it over and make some notes.
I count myself lucky cause Liang wants to improve as a writer. He had a great attitude and was listening intently to the discussion. He sent me his paper today and he applied some of the things we had talked about to his paper.
So my overall feelings about the session was it was successful. Maybe next time we will have remnants of a paper to work on though.
