Most Important Contribution

The most helpful thing that I learned from the Gendlin's essay is about "felt sense." The term "felt sense" is our own thought which progresses in our mind time to time when heading to write about specific topic. Our piece of writing should feel comfortable, easy and plain; but not confused. This is what the term "felt sense" is. It talks about how the writer thinks easily about the topic that he or she will be working on. He or she always should be aware of their soft gut feeling, instead of worrying about pleasing their audience. The writer should be expressing his or her thoughts in their writing; especially knowing that this is the major step in the writing. Moreover, the writer should go back or use the structure retrospective or recursive to see if the writing is coherence or not. As a struggling write myself, I not able to express myself in my writing because the whole time I am worrying about what will be the audience reaction.

~ My Do's and Don'ts ~

~ Do's ~

• A tutor should be calmed and when also make the his or her tutee calmed when they are struggling in their writing.

• Tutor should be able to engage with his or her tutee about the writing assignment only.

• Tutor should help the student to point out the guidelines they need to work on. For example:- reading the directions for the assignment that was introduced in the classroom.

• When student are struggling to write, one strategy that might be helpful is to just free write. By this approach, students will feel comfortable and be able to concentrate.

~ Don't ~

• Do not frustrate the tutee by yelling or making them feel dumb.

• Both the tutor and the tutee should not use their cell phones.

• Writing center is not a place to have fun or be relaxed. Moreover, it is not a therapy session. It is time to think and write about the assignment which was presented in the classroom.