Jake Acosta-Sorry, I cannot write your paper for you

This past Monday a client came in and wanted help with grammar. She was an ESL student that had concerns pretty much only with grammar. And she asked me to proofread and edit what she had. I suggested we go over her paper as a whole first, and she was reluctant but obliged. She expressed serious concern that I would not edti her paper. I told I would after if we had time. After we went over her paper and I felt she had addressed the questions posed, she asked me to edit for her. I began looking over her paper for grammatical mistakes, and when I found one I pointed it out to her and asked her what she thought she could do to change it. She paused and looked off into the distance, but made no suggestions. She asked me why I wouldn’t do it for her and I told her my job does not involve writing her paper. She replied that other tutors in the past had rewritten parts of her paper for her. I informed her that people have different styles, and that was not my style. I encouraged her to rewrite her sentences, pointing out things that she could not do and giving her a lot of freedom. I felt frustrated because she kept telling me she didn’t know what to do. I told her She had other sentences that were fine and I knew she could-it went back and forth for a few minutes. I noticed she had used a part of an article and had not cited it as well. It was its own sentence, and I suggested she paraphrase to avoid plagarism. She rewrote part of the sentence, but left a big enough chunk of it for it to still be considered plagarism. All in all, progress was made, but I would like to know if there is anything I can do about people who are persistent about tutors writing their papers for them.

Jake Acosta-Helping a Friend

I am an RA in the on campus dorms, and another RA came in to ask for help on an assignment. I was thrown off because I kept thinking about my relationship as a co-worker. I had known him personally for a year and had never had an interaction with him strictly as a student. He wanted to outline and draft for a paper that was coming up. We went over what he had already prepared, and then I tried to apply some theory. I focused on HOCs as we drew up plans for his paper. I made notes about what he said he wanted to talk about, and we examined those together to determine if he wanted to adjust anything. Everything went well, and he went on his way. However, he called me over the weekend and asked if I could go over it with him. I told him that we could in the Writing Center.

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