Toni-Lee Capossela's Peer Tutoring & Assessment 1.0

Toni-Lee Capossela's chapters on Peer Tutoring

From reading Toni-lee’s chapters on peer tutoring my perspective on a tutor, or peer consultant as he refers to it, has changed. I had always thought that to be a tutor you needed to have a complete knowledge of the said subject. But in writing it seems that an incomplete skill set will help the tutored in the overall process.  He or she will not absorb the consultant’s ideas because you’re not sitting their lecturing and changing their paper but rather helping them come up with their own stuff. One of the big things with writing that Toni-lee touched on was distancing one’s self from their own writing because it may seem complete to the writer but when someone else reads the paper it may not make sense or flow and when writing for the public it’s important that the target audience can easily comprehend the writing.  Another idea the author  talked about, that seems important is that writing is self taught, and that is definitely true. you cannot become a good writer by watching.  Only actual writing can show your weaknesses and strengths and show you where improvement is needed. This concept must also be taken into consideration when peer consulting.  The tutor cannot lecture or show how to write better but rather only guide the writer to the right path.

Assessment 1.0

My current writing consists of school work involving research, scientific papers, and lab reports along with emails and job applications. The context of writing that matters the least to me is emails and other similar writing. Right now the context that matters the most is school papers and job applications or resume because they can have the biggest impact if written poorly. My current revision process is reading over the piece of work and looking for sentence structure and spelling and superficial errors that will hinder my writing. But I have someone else proof read my papers, most of the time, because I miss sentence structure issues at times because I read what I want it to sound like and not what’s written down. My strengths in writing may be flow of ideas through the paper and transitions but my weakness is definitely sentence structure, grammar and spelling. And when put together can make a paper hard to read, but this usually disappears after the revision process. Some of the things I want to work on this semester are making sentences flow better. Working on different kinds of writing style and become better at revising my writing.