1st Tutoring

The student that I tutored on Wednesday had an idea of what he had to revise but didn't quite know how to do so. He said to  me "I think I'm going to change the whole thing", he said this because the notes his Professor said to explain more. He thought that by giving another example instead of the one he had would make his paper better. I told him not to, because what he had was good but he just had to expand on it a little bit more.I started by asking him questions and told him to jot down what he was responding to me, I had him brainstorm. We went back and forth, I would ask questions and he answered. Ten minutes later his notebook was filled with more details for him to use in order to expand what he already had. Although, there were some questions that I would ask and he didn't know what to answer because he wasn't familiar with illegal immigration. I was able to give him a little of more facts because I know people who are undocumented and know the struggle they have to face, so I used them as an example so that the student could be more detailed in his essay. After we finished with the brainstorming, he was able to expand on one paragraph that he already had and create a new one, the one his Professor asked him to. His thesis was a good one so we didn't touch on that, he had a few minor grammar issues but I decided not to focus on that since his body was what needed more work, although I told mentioned the grammar issues to him and told him to do it at home. At the end, I asked him if he needed help on anything else and he said that he was satisfied with what I helped him with.