[Bkn-english-646-fall-2009] Assignment 4

[Rajul Punjabi]

Assignment 4:
When tutoring someone, I can’t help but offer them tips on
organization that I use to get my writing coherent and clean, because it’s all
over the place sometimes.  The “thinking
aloud” technique really stuck out to me the most because the most
thought-provoking and paper-building ideas seem to come around through live and
active conversation. Students who are getting tutored often come in to the
writing center and look at it as a technical workshop, a place to construct
something articulate. I believe that’s only part of the battle, and the main
concern should be the content.
Apologies for the late response, but I’m kind of glad I’m
writing now because a lot of the class has provoked ideas and questions for me.
To Rachel’s comment on how students need to talk out a topic before getting on
the computer and typing – I feel like that’s a strong tool when it comes to
tutoring because a topic becomes so much more accessible and easier to handle
once words spill out of one’s mouth rather than directly onto a Word document. I
go so hard with the grammatical errors too! It’s the damn editor in me. I’m
learning that that’s supposed to come later, after carefully working through
the content.
As for Christine & Co. who hate graphic organizers, I’m
right there with you. I feel like its suffocating for a writer to try and
categorize their style. This is random, but it’s in the same vein is how I feel
about getting graded on poetry. How can you tell someone that the way they’re
spilling out their soul is in the correct format or not?
Last but not least, I love outlines. They take discipline
but can curb that natural ADD that occurs when trying to get thoughts onto
paper.
-Rajul


      
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