how we can help

They Say this book will help and I Say, “I concur”

Basically a Tutor can just go through some of the main chapters such as “the art of summarizing”, “The Art of Quoting,” ways to respond, and especially “why it matters.” YOU can help a tutee by going through the exercises at the end of each chapter or by reading their essays and seeing if they have any of the qualities talked about in the book. I am sure I will be using some of these templates in my upcoming papers, so I will definitely stress this to my tutee. I really liked that they had their students make sure to bring at least one opposing point into their essays. I think that is a very important point to stress. The summarizing chapter was very good and helpful to all writers and gives you a few different ways to go about writing one. Also the list at the end of that chapter with words one can use for introducing summaries and quotations was very helpful. Would I use the templates? I think I would have a session were me and my tutee try out some of the templates from different chapters and see how they worked. Then we could talk about how they changed our views on writing and if the point was made clearer through the template. Who Cares was also a good one, I liked bringing in something that most people care about to force our reader to care about our paper. The templates allow you to just try some of theses things out, and that’s what I plan on doing with myself and my tutee!