In my third observation I noticed how sometimes, time is not utilized to it's full potential during a session where there are two students. It seems like there is too little time to address the issues the writers are having and fairly giving each of the students time deserved is not happening. Understandably, there is only so much a tutor can do in 45 minutes. I think it is a huge injustice to have students sign up for tutoring, wait for a tutor and have to share their time with another student. I see in both my 3rd and 4th observations one student was sort of dismissed and sat without an activity to do to improve their papers. Only one student was given full attention during both sessions, and the other was briefly spoken to at the end of the session. When the student in observation 4 expressed her frustration that she had been to the writing center twice that week and did not feel like she received constructive help she was dismissed and told to come back at another time, as the session was over and no other help could be given at that time, which falls into the category of responding too late.. The positives during session 3 were that the tutor showed the student how to look for their own grammatical errors, was constantly asked thinking questions about their paper, like "what do you mean by this, what are you trying to say, and state your main idea in one sentence". In session 4, the student who was given the most "help" was a student that the tutor already knew, and they chatted about personal things rather than the topic at hand. The other student was dismissed a bit harshly by the tutor saying "OK were done have a nice day" and immediately turned to the other student and continued their irrelevant conversation.
In the end of these 4 sessions I observed some good things and some ridiculous things but it has reiterated what should and shouldn't happen during a tutoring session.
