Ceridwyn Griffis TS #5


On Wednesday, June 26th, I met with Futa from 3 to 4 for our second tutoring session together and my fifth tutoring session overall. Futa had prepared a practice essay so I could help him with his composition. The topic he had written about was whether or not the Internet is a positive force in the world, and he took the position of arguing that it is. Overall, he did a good job of conveying the message he was trying to convey, and he also did well in setting up the layout for the essay. He had a strong introductory paragraph and had two good body paragraphs, one for each supporting reason for his stance on the topic. However, his conclusion paragraph was a little weak, which he admitted himself, which would have been made stronger by adding a one or two sentence summarization. When it came down to the details of the essay, he struggled with plurals and articles. He understood the mistakes with plurals when I would start reading them, but he struggled with the articles and I had to step in and help more with them. The session ended with me summarizing what needed work.

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