During my one-on-one tutoring sessions I noticed that first asking students about their paper and expressing genuine interest worked well to have them more open to suggestions. I also found that after reading their papers it was better to start the conversation by reassuring the students that their paper was off to a good start or say something in that same vein. From that I think that my suggestions were better received when I started by telling the student what was working in their papers. I wouldn’t tell them outright that something was wrong or not working instead I would point out the specific area and say that I was confused by the wording or I’d ask them a question about what they meant by something. More often than not when I started asking questions then the students would ask me questions about part of their paper or if they were supposed to capital something or intent a paragraph. …show more content…
Which happened to me once and at first I was at a loss as to what I could do or say. So when I approached the student again, after deciding to give her a few minutes to herself and giving myself a few minutes to think, I asked her if she was sure that she didn’t want me to took over her paper and then I told her that she didn’t have to make any changes if she didn’t want to and that got her to let me read her paper. Then after that I used the same techniques that I used with other students when going over their