What happens when the tutor is at a loss (of what to do)?
What I've been reading:
I have an article called "The Socratic method: The answer for the new tutor" by Brooke Ann Smith. I don't, however, know where this article was published - the director at a WC in South Carolina used this article in our tutor training. Smith retells a situation in which she didn't know what to do with a session because the writer's paper was "technically" correct, though the writer clearly wanted some instruction on how to improve it. So Smith questioned her, and the writer pretty much came up with what to do all on her own.
This is kind of a... very pretty picture of a session. This essay can be used to compare what I see happen in a similar situation (where a tutor's response to a loss is to ask questions).
And this is all assuming I can figure out where this article was published, of course.
A second article I'm considering is "Intellectual Tug-of-War: Snapshots of Life in the Center" by Elizabeth H. Boquet. Boquets article is, in my opinion, more realistic than a lot of other articles. Here, she write about WC situations that aren't ideal; when tutors do something "wrong," and when they don't know what to do. Two parts of her essay are unrelated to my topic (they're about tutor-tutor relationships), so I won't use those. She addresses a tutor's internal struggle - doing what fits the moment/doing what is right. She also presents situations where tutors have to deal with differing opinions - those of herself, the professor, and the writer. She uses her own real life examples of these losses, which I can again use to compare with mine.
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