After my last meeting with my tutee, we furthered discussed the elements of essay writing. In our previous meeting, we discussed elements of writing a strong introduction for an essay. In this meeting, we discussed and brainstormed about how to write a strong conclusion.
I shared with him that the conclusion is basically a restatement of the introduction on a more proactive notion with a sense of closure. The mock topic that I gave him was, "Why would someone travel to Kuwait?" He came up with three reasons and then from we worked on developing a good conclusion.
Along with this, I gave him some useful links for transition words to use throughout his essay and to start off his body paragraphs. We also viewed sample essays and articles online in order to give him stylistic options in writing.
Although it seemed as though we did not cover much material, we talked about many things and I helped him with his speech and pronunciation. He had trouble with pronouncing and differentiating with words that had "ee" and "i" for example, a sheet of paper as opposed to a sh...t of paper. I had him emphasize the double e's which helped a lot.
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