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I met with my tutee tonight. The assignment he was working on was to respond to/summarize an article in They Say/I Say. He decided to respond to the article by Graff talking about hidden intellectualism. I began the conversation by talking about things not related to the assignment. My tutee seemed a little reluctant to talk about his writing.
One thing I would like to talk a little more about are strategies to help the tutee talk about their writing.
It seemed like what he had prepared for our session was a very rough draft of his paper. I pointed out when revising he might want to pay a little more attention to the grammar. One thing I liked about our session was we were able to talk about how he liked to revise papers. His approach actually reminded me of how some of the "experienced writers" described simply writing a first draft to have ideas down and going back and organizing the ideas later. I obviously haven't seen the finished product but if he follows this strategy he should have a pretty solid final paper.
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In light of the research you've read for today's class meeting, how might you respond to your classmate? You might begin your consideration with general questions related to today's readings, such as
- What is revision?
- How do unskilled writers write?
- How do inexperienced writers' revision strategies differ from those of experienced writers?
