Feelings of Incompetency :: Personal Narrative Writing

Feelings of IncompetencyIn my experiences at the Writing pick Center, I have found that the biggest welkin of concern that I have run into is the feeling that I am an ineffective tutor as furthermost as tutoring the students that amaze in search of writing assistance. I feel that I am a very inadequate means of relief for these people, withal they still come to me for help. In this paper, I will explore these thoughts and try to find bulge out what it is that makes me feel so ineffective.In recent discussions with my peers at the Writing Resource Center, I have found that, though these feelings of inadequacy are moderately consistent throughout the center, I feel that my feelings are a deed more strong when it comes to that of helping the student. I feel that what I am doing in helping the student is exactly what were taught not to do, as far as assisting.The most glaring thing that I feel that I am doing wrong is that when I memorise a paper that is preposterous with comma s, I tend to point them out without much help from the tutee. sorb the following paragraph, for example (which is a rough copy from a tutee of tap - who wasnt a foreigner to our country)Snowmobiles, on the other hand, are, for example, a very effective, yet costly, means of transportation. They are, as said before, expensive, but, the fact that theyre worth it only enhances their, lets say, worthiness. I mean, you can buy one, for cheap, but, on the other hand, why buy a cheap one when spending a little bit more would mean fewer problems down the road.Now, after reading this paragraph, I read it aloud to him exaggerating the pauses wherever the commas were placed. Next, I asked him to read me if the whole paragraph sounded crazy to him or not. He promptly replied that it sounded perfectly fine. Upon hearing this, I time-tested a different approach I had him paraphrase, or restate, what he was trying to say in the paragraph while I wrote it down. I therefore had him read what I had just written down and asked him what he felt up about that for his paragraph instead of the one that he had on his paper. He abruptly said no and looked at me defiantly. Next, after trying to tell him how commas were supposed to function in a sentence, I asked him again if he felt that there were any places in his paragraph that seemed awkward and/or over comma-ized.