Date/Time:
September 17, 2018, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Location:
CIES Student Lounge (Main Floor)
Topic/Skill: Sentence Structure and Word Usage in Writing
Feedback provided to tutor: My tutor gave me a printed version of the edited writing. I felt thankful and respectful to him because I could feel he has been trying his best to facilitate the tutee to learn more, applying the methodology we learned in class. I was surprised again that the edited paragraph he guided to rewrite was noticeably well-organized and sophisticated.
He got me to try editing the rest parts of the writing, and I felt I was still obsessed with possible small errors rather than big picture of the writing. He refreshed me to arrange the main idea and supporting idea, first. And the narrative was getting more structured.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I felt that his teaching was greatly helpful and powerful in use, especially when he let me understand the difference between 'because' and 'since'. I have been understanding that they are same meaning to indicate reason and 'since' is just more formal. I guess I have a lot of misunderstanding of using words. But I was really happy that the tutor corrected my chronic problem of expressing the reason by 'because' and 'since'.
I am pleased you recalled the discussion about "because" and "since". These two words I finally sorted out--in graduate school! (And, I am a "native speaker"!) Working with APA style/format in graduate school provided me the opportunity to learn, rethink really, many things about word usage. I still have much to learn about English.
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