CATW Essay Response.

                While reading this article I realized that the student understood the message of the article very well and the student explained the message with facts and good details by using an example of how the media sends us thousands of marketing messages per day and how advertisements are implying on how people should live their life. The student understood the message of how advertisement is brainwashing our brains. In my opinion I think that the student should have one a much better job by summarizing the essay better with details that and explaining and mentioning the author’s most important ideas and one of the author’s significant idea.

Even though the student included good details in the essay it would be much better if he/she mentioned the most important details that the author stated and that he/she is more important as well. I think the student could have done much better if he/she would have included a personal experience that can relate to the article or reading they learned in the outside because this is a big part of this assignment. It is very important for the student to give a personal experience related to the article because if not the student can fail the test. I think that the student chooses good words choices that helped he/she organized the essay. I think the student have some problem with the structure of the sentence in making the first paragraph too long.  

Reflection on Sondra Perl essay, what's important to you in it.

The three aspects of the process are felt sense, retrospective structuring and projective structuring. Felt sense is a feeling of what you want to say, part of the process of writing, like an intuition, “does what I’m saying make sense?” “Is this what I really want to say?” Retrospective structuring is the order, organization, paragraph, sentence order and grammar. Retrospective structuring is the connection between language and ideas. Projective structuring is when you put yourself in the audience’s shoes, how they would respond, but not writing from a place of obsession w/ “correctness”.

Felt sense is very important in the writing process because you have to feel what you will be writing about; also you need to have an idea and an understanding of what’s your writing about. Felt sense is very useful in the process of writing because it gives the writer a feeling and an interaction with the writing in the way of understanding everything and saying what’s on your mind.

To me the most useful aspect of the process is felt sense because it is important to feel what you are writing about. Felt sense is my favorite because before putting yourself in someone’s shoes you have to feel the writing, understanding it and getting the ideas of it. Felt sense is with you all the times this is why is important in developing the understanding of your writing before you start writing.  

"Tutoring Do's and Don'ts"

Tutoring Do's

-  A face to face relationship between a tutor and a student.

- An open and good communication between the tutee and the tutor

- Guide tutee to become independent.

- Build trust and honesty between tutors and tutee.

- Gives feedback and strategies to better a writing piece.

- Gives tutees’ expectations about their work.

- Is the help you need to become a better writer.

- Demonstrate care and responsibilities for the tutees and their writing piece.

- Listen to any problem the tutees might have with their piece.

- Gives strategies to become a better writer.

- Be respectful with the tutees and their work.

-  Prepare to answer questions and make everything clear and understandable for the tutee.

- Show concern about the writer's piece.

- Set examples for the writer to have an idea of how to make the writing piece better.

- Very professional and respectful.

Tutoring Don'ts

- Correct errors.

- Take over the tutee's paper.

- Tutors don’t be messy and unprepared.

-Tutors don’t rush during a tutoring section.

- Tutors don’t tell their tutees what to write in their paper.


- Tutors don’t lead students on with questions unanswered or without making suggestions.