Based on
the two scenes of plagiarism in a writing center, there were a lot of helpful
and non-helpful techniques used. In the first scene, the tutor was really laid
back about the student using plagiarism. The tutor did mention what a good idea
it was to use different types of sources for her paper, and informed her that
she needed to cite her sources. The student informed the tutor that she has
never used citation before in High School and does not understand why she needs
to use citation now; the tutor should have but did not reinforce the rule and
the consequences of plagiarism in college.
In the second scene, the student is barely paying attention to the tutor;
she is angry and frustrated that she was forced to visit the writing center.
The student is not letting the tutor speak while he tries to calm her but
ultimately the session is lost when the tutor fails and the student leaves the
session angrily.
The last
video we viewed was a session where the student is constantly on their phone
and not paying attention while the tutor spoke. The tutor tries gaining control
by asking the student read her paper to him but the student continued pausing
the session and replying to text messages. The tutor could prevent this from
happening in future sessions by informing students in the beginning of the
session about the no cell phone policy that they have in the writing center, or
also by just saying “let’s put our cell phones on silent before we start
working”.
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