Feelings of Incompetency :: Personal Narrative Writing

Feelings of IncompetencyIn my experiences at the Writing imaging Center, I ingest piece that the biggest area of concern that I have run into is the feeling that I am an ineffective tutor as far as tutoring the schoolchilds that come in search of writing assistance. I feel that I am a very inadequate performer of relief for these people, yet they still come to me for help. In this paper, I allow for explore these thoughts and try to find out what it is that makes me feel so ineffective.In recent discussions with my peers at the Writing Resource Center, I have found that, though these feelings of inadequacy are somewhat consistent throughout the center, I feel that my feelings are a bit more strong when it comes to that of constituent the student. I feel that what I am doing in helping the student is exactly what were taught not to do, as far as assisting.The most egregious thing that I feel that I am doing wrong is that when I read a paper that is loaded with commas, I tend t o loony toons them out without much help from the tutee. Take the following divide, for example (which is a rough copy from a tutee of mine - who wasnt a foreigner to our country)Snowmobiles, on the other hand, are, for example, a very effective, yet costly, means of transportation. They are, as verbalize before, expensive, but, the fact that theyre worth it only enhances their, lets say, worthiness. I mean, you can buy one, for cheap, but, on the other hand, why buy a cheap one when disbursement a little bit more would mean fewer problems squander the road.Now, after reading this paragraph, I read it aloud to him exaggerating the pauses wherever the commas were placed. Next, I asked him to tell me if the whole paragraph sounded strange to him or not. He apace replied that it sounded perfectly fine. Upon hearing this, I tried a different go about I had him paraphrase, or restate, what he was trying to say in the paragraph while I wrote it down. I then had him read what I had however written down and asked him what he felt about that for his paragraph kind of of the one that he had on his paper. He abruptly said no and looked at me defiantly. Next, after trying to tell him how commas were supposed to function in a sentence, I asked him again if he felt that there were every places in his paragraph that seemed awkward and/or over comma-ized.