Second Observation

This is my second observation in the writing center with the same tutor, but this session was different from the first experience I had. This time the tutor didn't introduce me to the student. This was an ENG 101 student trying to change his C+ paper to an A. He already corrected the errors the professor identified. The tutor started to talk personally with the student, she has been his tutor for a couple sessions before. She spoke to him to personally about the subject matter of the paper. After that the session became teacher centered. She started by correcting his heading and the font size. Majority of the session was addressing LOC's. She said to me, "Address everything, students don't know how to fill out paperwork correctly", referring to the incorrect heading. I just nodded knowing she shouldn't be saying that in front of the student in that way or even addressing LOC's. She started to ask him why he wrote certain sentences because it was in wrong context. So she told him what to do to fix it and what words to use. She was making changes to his paper and the student happily obliged writing her suggestions.  At the end of the session the student was not confident about his paper. So the tutor tried to convince him that the paper was really good and shes been doing in for years. But the student refused to believe so she went over the paper again and just said add more evidence if you can. The student was still hesitant about it, so she she told him to go home fix what they went through and bring it back. As I said in my other post the tutor is very welcoming and is requested a lot from what I heard, but based on everything we are learning in class about tutoring writing, she isn't following the proper guidelines. So it makes me believe that personality wins over technique with some students.