Myrick, J. TP#3

For our most recent meeting, Ali and I jumped right into our writing exercises. I had Ali work on another prompt, and I gave him a 30 minute time limit. As he wrote, he seemed more confident in his outlining and his ideas. I did not bother him during the limit, but I just sat and watched. After the 30 minutes was up, we went over the essay, and I must say I was thoroughly impressed by his progress in a span of a few sessions. He had less grammatical, spelling, and noun/verb errors which I was happy about. His composition seemed to be more organizaed than the few that we did, and Ali noticed himself. The introduction essay stated his thesis and his main points, and everything flowed well. From start to finish, he really improved. When I asked ALi to reread it, he said the same thing. We did a practice TOEFL test that he had and worked on the reading portion which he said was making him nervous. Answering a few questions, I gave him some tips to help him pick out the main ideas in the essays, such as reading the first three sentences as it usually states the thesis. He said that he felt more confident about taking the test and would use the tips I gave him.