Rather than write on the chapters in th Bedford tutoring guide, I thought I'd reflect on what we did in class this week.
I think the ESL paper analyzing was a very practical exercise. Giving advice, and especially advice that is at once technical and abstract, is a hard thing to teach, but putting us into the position of having to analyze a specific example, run through the process of correcting it, and then figuring out what we know that the student doesn't that allows us to correct it, is pretty powerful.
The other exercise we did of creating the paragraph from hell, was also pretty fun, and did a good job of testing our knowledge of the grammar tested. While we didn't get every single rule in (I think we missed three or so?), we did have to think about a practical way to implement every function of punctuation, which was a great test for whether or not we knew how to do it There was also the aspect of trying to fit as many rules as we could into one sentence which was a blast, haha!
Good stuff...
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