Tutor Training Midterm, Part II Part II: Read the following partial transcript of a tutoring session, and answer the questions that follow. 1. T: What can I help you with today? 2. S: Well, my teacher gave back my draft and said that it needs better organization. 3. T: What’s the assignment? 4. S: An essay 5. T: Yeah 6. S: explaining how to do something. 7. T: OK 8. S: I decided to write mine on bathing a cat. 9. T: (laughs) A challenging task! 10. S: (smiles) Yes. 11. T: The bath, I mean. (laughs) 12. S: OK (laughs) 13. T: So what do you know about organizing this kind of essay? 14. S: Um, I 15. T: What is this kind of essay is called? 16. S: Um, a, uh, 17. T: Is it comparison/contrast? 18. S: No. 19. T: Is it a description? 20. S: Well, it’s describing something. 21. T: What is it describing? 22. S: How to bathe a cat. 23. T: Which is a . . . ? 24. S: Hard thing to do? I don’t know. I’m stuck. (laughs) 25. T: Okay, it’s a process essay. 26. S: Oh. Okay. 27. T: That means the essay is explaining the steps in a process. 28. S: Yeah, I remember. We’re supposed 29. T: So you have to make sure the steps are in order, or your reader will get lost. 30. S: That part is kind of hard because 31. T: The first thing you should do is make an outline (tutor grabs a piece of paper and pen and begins an outline). 32. S: (pause) 33. T: These are instructions, so you can’t assume that your reader knows what you’re talking about. You should use chronological order. 34. S: Chrono-what? 35. T: What’s the first step? 36. S: Well . . . 37. T: What’s the first thing you gotta do? (tutor has pen posed in the air) 38. S: Get your supplies ready. 39. T: (pause) 40. S: You know, the shampoo, the towel . . . 41. T: OK. Good. (hands pen to student) Write that down. Then what? 42. S: Then you should run the water until it’s lukewarm. . . . Tools This activity was created by a Quia Web subscriber. To learn how to make your own, just like this, click here.