MY REASEARCH PLAN...

Statement
How a student tutor long term relationship effects the out come of the session...

What I'm looking for
I hope to see how reacurring tutorees can affect how well the student has learned or has accomplished throughout the session . Body language Eye contact and questions that is used and asked. How tutor knows to use to get the student learning.

What i plan to do is...

Research reaccuring tutorees and look for the above key items, tutor and hope to get the same tutoree , read and resarch to back up my theories and conclusion.maybe observing a new session will help me to see the diffrence and compare a little but not too much because it will be creating a whole new topic ... feed back from serveys and notes should help with my obsevations and from there take my research to create my paper

The student Tutor realationship
Clark, Beverly Lyon. Talking about Writing. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1985.
Clark, Irene L. Writing in the Center. Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1998.
Murphy, Christina, and Steve Sherwood. The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.
Reigstad, Thomas J. and Donald A. McAndrew. Training Tutors for Writing Conferences. Urbana, Il: NCTE, 1984.
Ryan, Leigh. The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998.
http://ww3.montreat.edu/tutor/2.htm

The Role of Uncertainty Reduction in Student-Tutor Interaction: Relationship Building as Key Determinant of Success

Essid, Joe, and Dona J. Hickey. "Creating a Community of Teachers and Tutors." Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. Ed. Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998. 73-85.
http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/1/3/9/0/pages13900/p13900-2.php

Newkirks essay

Blog # 15

Researching my topic I found a few sources that I found usefully and will probably use in my paper. My topic is student- tutor relationships long term vs short term does it affect the students learning in anyway...

http://ww3.montreat.edu/tutor/2.htm

The student/ tutor relationships

http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/practices/17487

Building successful tutor-student relationships

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/1/3/9/0/pages13900/p13900-2.php

The Role of Uncertainty Reduction in Student-Tutor Interaction: Relationship Building as Key Determinant of Success

I also found some journals on this topic and sometime this week I plan on going to the library to see if I can find any books that could possibly help me...

Blog # 14

Most of my questions were answered in class Monday.. But my questions are not really questions but more concerns..

1. What happens if students won't let us observe?

2. Can we use tv shows or youtube videos for refrences?

3. How many refrences do we need for the bibliograpy?

Blog # 13

Our tutoring sessions and Newkirk beliefs coenside closely. Newkirk says that students should be given the opportunity to talk within the first few minutes of the conference. With my experience I learned that the classmates I have tutored talk in the first few minutes of class. They state why they are there and what they need help with to make their paper alot stronger. Sessions usually began with a student and tutor introduction. Then the student or the tutor trys to figure out the problem that they are having with their paper. They use many diffrent techniques and styles to correct the paper and have the student leave understanding what they need to do and what they are going to do. After many questions and suggestions the student should leave with a focus on their paper. Newkirk suggests understanding and focus for the session to be a success and with the expeiences I've came across I feel he's right on the money!

Blog # 12

Our first tutoring session in the CAS we had to work with each other because we had no students. I was a student and I had one of my classmates tutor me while the other observed the session. During my session, I noticed that Keith used minimalistic techniques which seemed very effective for this session. He sat next to me and asked me what I was there for. Then he has me read my paper and asked me what I thought was wrong. Keith had me correct my paper as we went along. He helped me take out and minimize quotes. Our session was kind of short because I didn't have many questions about my paper. Then our professor came and did another tutoring session with me so that Keith and Christine could gain some more notes. The professor took more of a teacher student approach. She helped me pull out my three main ideas and made them stronger. After the two tutors I was a lot cleared about where I was going to go with my paper and how to fix it up.

Note: Names were changed for privacy..

Blog # 11

My idea for my paper has changed various times at first i thought i would do something like, Who gets more out of a tutoring session a student whose teacher sends them or a student who goes to a tutoring session on their own? Then I started researching the topic and found it was a little to broad so I narrowed it down to How student attitude affects the progress of their paper/session. Then i decided to change it again to What affective things can a tutor do to improve a students attitude? After researching these topic i finally decided to change and hopefully keep my question about student tutor relationships, How long term relationships effect a tutoring session verses short term student tutor relationships. From my own personal experience its easier to study with someone you know but on the other hand the uncomfortableness of a strange makes me try harder. So hopefully tutoring and observing will give me enough information to obtain some facts about this topic.