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Kevin and I missed the class where we held mock tutoring session on the drafts of Lunsford. So, we decided to hold our own mock tutoring session, in which he tutored me on my draft.

When it started, I showed Kevin my draft and told him what I was worried about. While I read Lunsford a few times, I honestly don't feel like I had a strong enough response to it to formulate a response paper. To get us started, not that there was a lot of awkward, but he used a free talking to get the assignment flowing. He, luckily enough, having known the text, was able to add and ask about it. However, I didn't think to take the book out but Kevin reminded me that when going over a paper, especially one where I wasn't sure of the assignment or content, without a book, is nearly insane.

Through free talking, Kevin was able to get me to say more about how I feel on the topic, which he made me write down. After fifteen minutes of talking about the topic, looking down at my page, I had a ton of things I hadn't added into my paper. He took a look at my grammar, which is usually helacious to be honest, he circled my errors (as I told him I could print out another copy). He had me fix the errors (most of which I make because I'm rushing to get out all of my ideas, which seem to come so quickly I cannot slow down enough to get them all out) but he wouldn't outright tell me what I had to do to fix them.

After 45 minutes of sort of talking out the paper, I began shooting past him ideas of where I could insert the additional ideas so that they would make sense, but he reminded me just inserting additional information doesn't increase a paper's quality - only makes it longer. I took a look, and with the last 10 minutes or so we attempted to figure out how to restructure parts of the paper to include the new material.

REVIEW:
Kevin was helpful, but never led, which is very interesting, especially considering how close we are. I was able to still make my own material, without him inserting his own agenda. He very much kept me feeling comfortable and producing work of my own voice. It made me feel better knowing he wasn't trying to lead me to what he wanted to write. It was a good experience which helped me to turn out more, stronger, and better material based on what I already throught.