Intro:
Does workshops and tutoring help us develop new criteria in our ideas for better writing? Why other people ideas are so important on our work? The answer for this questions is a single word called FEEDBACK. We get feedback by sharing our ideas with experienced people that help us in our writing process. Writing is an endless process and improvement is a constant change in it. My theory wants to demonstrate that the idea for students to have workshops, tutoring is in order to get feedback that will take you to a writing improvement. I think that sometimes students don't want to have feedback for many reasons but it's important that they know the high level of importance in writing. Writing deserves a high level of interest in order to catch the attention of readers and to make clear what you mean in your article. Feedback allows students the opportunity to grow as writers and to blow away their own ideas to the fullest. I want to add some personal experience to know in what things are this questions based and how they came out. Tutoring is very important in my life, it provides me confidence on what I am doing. Reviewing also helps me because it gives me feedback about my work and it let me do things better every time. This are basically the reasons that help me make this questions for my theory.
Literature Review:
I’ve choose three articles that I think they are helpful on the development of my theory. Lets start with Nancy Sommers, she tells us that peer response and tutoring is a method use to keep writing in constant changing. Review is a key word in what Nancy Sommers want to tell us because this word represent everything, this help us change the students idea for better.
In the other side Richard Behm describe in his article a better way to make workshops perfect for each case. He also tell us that there is nothing better as workshop to get feedback in writing and that it depends on certain steps to make it better. Steps like choosing a topic and the angle of what the workshop would be about so that students can go through the main idea and have less confusion. Sharing ideas is a method he described as a transformation of writing.
Finally, I choose Moll and Gonzalez because I like their idea of funds of knowledge because this is the principal cause of our things and actions in the present. It’s interesting how they tell us that our funds of knowledge is our principal source of learning and that they are connected with writing of course. If teachers are prepared for teaching, workshops would be even better for students. For each student we have a different case and that’s why the teacher has to be prepared in every topic to help them in his way to writing succeed.
Connection Piece:
These three articles are a brilliant tool in the demonstration of my theory. One talks about how we need to make workshops and tutoring, the other one talk about funds of knowledge and the last one about tutoring. These three articles are connected by me because I want to demonstrate that by having tutoring you will become a better writer. So we start with funds of knowledge, in order to prepared for giving a tutoring session the teachers must be prepared with the student case or familiar on what are they going to talk (experience). Then there are certain steps you have to make in order to give a tutoring session in the best way possible. After that Nancy Sommers is connected with both because her theory about making tutoring, having revisions by experienced readers take the students to a better workplace. By making this connections we can notice that these articles are related in the way I previously described and that my theory get stronger with this ideas from this great authors. So lets start by asking students how they think about tutoring, revisions, so that this theory can start having some results that will help define each situation .
Methodology:
I am using a survey as a tool for this project, this survey consists in asking students their thoughts about tutoring and revision of work. Making surveys is the best way to get people ideas about my theory and to represent what I want to know of them. I know surveys not always concret because students can answer them with lack of enthusiasm or just for filling out the paper, but the important thing here is to gave them options in the surveys because this will make them easier for getting an answer. Another thing I put in the survey was a question that it's super relevant because by asking why, you get more feedback and information about what students really think about tutoring. Making this as random as possible makes the survey more important because we know that each student will have a different perspective about what are you really asking. My goal with this work is to represent students' ideas with numbers. Numbers are just to represent their ideas as general as possible but by asking why I can get deeper in their thoughts. Graphs would help a lot in this process of my theory and it would provide me a hole new perspective about students' ideas. I've done more surveys for more information so that more people ideas are shown on my work. Another thing is that this surveys are important because of the type of questions I've ask and not because of the amount of questions or the amount of people. Content is what matters.
Research Data:
For the research data I as already explain on the methodology I used surveys and now it was time to express all that work into numbers. I represented all this data by making different types of graphs explaining all the students opinions. For this part I counted each single answer for every question on the survey. I used the appropriate graph for each single question in order to represented as deserve so that people can understand everything at first view. Another thing I did was to express students voice into words because whatever they think about my theory was shown on a paper with some of their answers. This part of the research is very important because is when all the work I've done of completing surveys is going to be demonstrate and if this work is not done correctly, this could be a problem for representing the theory.
This surveys for me was a success because I recollect all the necessary information for completing and to give a hole explanation about my theory. This numbers represent students ideas and this is what I have. I made a total of 40 surveys which helped me in the research process, the first numbers that the survey gives us is whether the students attend tutoring or revision for their work. From a total of 40 students, only 7 said yes and the other 33 said a scary no. Another question was the level of importance that students gave for tutoring and revision, from 40 students, 27 said low, 8 said indifferent, 4 say higher and just 1 said very higher. The time students spend on tutoring also was asked and this was the result, from 40 students, 36 said from 0-2, 4 said from 3-5.
Research Analysis:
This data give me important feedback about my theory. Surveys were completed by college students that provides us a perspective of students point of view. I have obtained information that will result in a conclusion about what we want to demonstrate the theory. With these numbers we can see that students really have no interest in tutoring or some kind of review about their work. The statistics tell us the level of importance that students give tutoring and whether they have or not. It is amazing to see the results and know that students who are studying university is not interested in improving their learning and their education. Given these numbers, teachers need to improve their techniques for students to really commit to improving their skills, writing and learning. We know that college student who really wants to learn and know more is because he wants to go further, is someone who is not satisfied. We know that these are students are going to tutoring, but the percentage is very low and therefore have to do something for everyone interested in little by little.
Converstation Piece:
During this research, I learned a lot about how students see tutoring as an important tool in their learning. However, students also tend to contradict it when asked if they attend or not some kind of tutoring or revision most of them answer no. I also learned that it is important to know the point of view of students to reach conclusions that will help prove our theory. When doing surveys is important to choice questions, as these will allow us to have numbers that will help us to express the results. It is also important to ask something openly as because of the things that help us further on the subject and create responses for our theory.And when I had the results I noticed that the comparison was one of the best options to go case by case basis and so have the right conclusions.
Conclusion:
The theory I proposed for this project leads me to conclude that students should take tutoring in order to increase their knowledge, writing, study and projects. The results in my research told me that students are not interested in tutoring because they consider it unnecessary to constantly attend. Some said they did not go away, others only when needed and that is why sometimes the results both at school and their learning are not the best. For this reason is that my theory is aimed at teachers, and I invite them to develop new teaching methods and motivation for students to obtain better results in whatever you intend to do. So I conclude that teachers play an important role in the development of their students and therefore they have the responsibility to ensure students to improve their knowledge.
Works cited:
-Behm, Richard. "You Want a Workshop or a Revival Meetin'?" English Education 17.1 (1985): 39-43.
- Moll, Luis, and Norma Gonzalez. "Lessons from Research with Language-Minority Children." Journal Reading Behavior 26.4 (1994): 156-78.
-Sommers, Nancy. "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers." College Composition and Communication 31.4 (1980): 378-88.
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