Quiz 3 Review

Direction: In the language of Tutoring Writing Chapter 3, evaluate the following tutor-writer conferences.

1. The writer comes in with a paper. The tutor reads it over and immediately notices the grammar is full of errors. She realizes she must set about correcting the errors and explaining to the writer what good grammar looks like.[correcting errors page 17 --- lower order concerns (17) --- editor journalist (14)

2. A writer comes in and hands a tutor his paper. The tutor reads it over and sees it is full of problems on every level: it has sentences which are often grammatically incorrect and are at times unreadable, and has no discernible thesis or organizational pattern. After reading the paper, the tutor says to the writer, “Okay, in this paper I see a few different issues we could work on. I think it is going to need a lot of work, so you may want to come back for a second or third visit. But for today the first thing we need to work on is your opening paragraph. What do you know about opening paragraphs? What are the most important elements that need to be included in a good opening paragraph?” [correcting errors (17) – being an expert (19) – editor-journalist (14) – responding too late (20)

3.      The tutor decides after 15 minutes in conference that the writer is a great writer and does not need tutoring. However, since the schedule insists that they sit there together for an hour, she decides to ask him how things are going in his life, and how things are going in school. He says he is doing great, so they move on eventually to talking about what they are doing this weekend. [therapy (18)] – cheerleading (17)

4. The tutor notices her tutee is working with English as a second language. The tutee seems to have things she wants to say in her paper, but doesn’t have the words for it. But the tutor feels she knows what the tutee wants to say so she says, “I know what you can say that will be good for this paper.” Then the tutor takes the paper and begins writing out ideas for the tutee to type out when she gets home. [usurping ownership 19--- ] [being an expert (19)