Peer Tutoring Trial

During the tutoring session that I held with Pete, I tried to apply aspects from Brooks and North's theories to my style of tutoring. I asked her what his assignment was and what he felt could be improved on. He read his paper aloud to me while I followed along on the paper. I had a pad and pen out to take notes on what I might fix, but there were not many alterations that I would make. Most of the changes that we ended up making were in the structure of specific sentences which did not quite fit into what he was saying. Each time I found something that confused me, as a reader, I asked him if he agreed with my opinion and how he might fix the issue. We mostly worked out the kinks and the wording of the questionable phrases together by brainstorming and eventually arriving at a consensus. I tried throughout the tutoring session to give Peter my opinion and then help him understand why I felt the way that I did. A correction to someone's work is useless, in my opinion, if they don't understand it because in the next paper they will most likely make the same mistake again. At the end of the session, I asked him if he had any more concerns that we had not addressed. He said that we had covered everything that he was hoping to work on, and that he felt confident in his paper. I think that having him understand the changes that I suggested in turn made him understand his own paper more clearly.