Ceridwyn Griffis TS #10


On Wednesday, July 10th, I met with Futa from 3 to 4 for our fifth tutoring session together and my tenth tutoring session overall. For this tutoring session, Futa had brought in another practice essay for me to look over and correct. The topic for this one was whether or not it is good to have co-ed schools, which Futa argued is good. Just like his previous practice composition essay, he did well with the overall structure of the essay and was able to get his thoughts on the topic across. The supporting paragraphs were well written, and the introductory paragraph was solid. However, he still struggled with the closing paragraph. He was closer than before, but it was still not quite there. He also still made quite a few mistakes with plurals and articles. There were fewer plural mistakes than before and he quite almost all of them when I got to them, but he still did not fully understand the articles. At the end of the session, I told him that he needed to look over articles again, and that I would work on them the next time.

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