During the tutoring observation, I expect to encounter a student that is frantically trying to seek help for a difficult assignment. The student will come to the tutor hoping that he/she will be able to provide some insight as to what the student should write and how to format the paper. When the tutor does not directly give the student all of the answers and expects the student to have some ideas of their own, I suspect that the student will become aggravated with the tutor.
The properly trained tutor will quickly remind the student that the tutoring service to available to assist the student in creating a thesis and paper formation, not do it for them. The tutor will also remind the student that the goal is to help the student become an independent thinker so that eventually they will be able to create and format a paper independently.
By the end of the session, I believe the student will have a more comprehensive understanding of the tutoring process and will be more prepared with their own ideas for any subsequent sessions they will have with a writing tutor.
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