Blog #8 Minimalist Tutoring

It is difficult for me to say who would be the best candidates for minimalist tutoring because it seems to be a very direct, take no prisoners method. If I am just going to collect my pay and not really help out writers, this is the way I would go. This approach is rather cold as far as I am concerned, (of course I’m just learning).

There are parts that I would like to use, for instance; “Your paper has value as a piece of writing. It is worth reading ad thinking about like any other piece of writing.” That’s good. I also understand; “Don’t be an editor.” The “goal of the tutoring session is learning” and if a tutor writes the paper, the student doesn’t learn to write better. The “basics” like; sit next to the student, get the paper in the student’s hands, and having the student read the piece aloud all work well for my personality. However, after reading the chapter, I thought I might be being too hard on a student and that perhaps I could be a little more helpful opposed to so “down to business.”

So, to answer the question, I think a person who is a pretty decent writer to begin with would be the best student for the minimalist tutoring approach