A Writer's Wanderings

Tutoring adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities can be difficult. To me, it is especially hard to figure out if the person is trying to take advantage of you or if they genuinely need more help than the average student. In my experience, people with cognitive and developmental disabilities do not want to take advantage of you, they might even feel embarrassed about asking you many questions. Generally people who continue to ask you questions after a half hour to an hour session with them are the people who are taking advantage of you. It is important to try and stay patient with them but make it clear that you cannot right the paper for them. Now that does not mean that all people with disabilities are perfect angels, they still might try and get you to right the paper for them. The people who try to use thier disabilities as an excuse are the ones that can be the most difficult to tutor. I have actually had a student tell me, “I have a learning disability ...

Sometimes it can seem like the days are getting shorter and there just isn’t enough time to fit a concise schedule into 24 hours as a college student. Be that as it may, we try our best to juggle the many endeavors that will take us to the end goal- our dreams and ambitions. At the end of every long day, there may be a gradually increasing fear that everything we do in the moment won’t be enough for who we want to be and what we strive to encapsulate. Much of these fruitless thoughts and anxiety can stem from high stress levels due to a lack of adequate sleep or a lack of effective sleep. Unhealthy habits may also impact the stress that we face on a daily basis. There may be a mountain of seemingly feasible quick fixes with a bit of online research, but the one foundational change that must occur is a change in mindset and a force of willpower. Sleep deprivation can exacerbate stress levels, negative reactions to stress, anxiety, depression, and many more cogniti...

                       I will assign each student to do different parts of the assignment. Also, I will ask each one of them to explain the prompt in his own way. Then, I would recommend them to read their essay out loud, so they can check for grammar and punctuation. In this way, they will be more responsible and they will understand they need to take certain roles in completing this project. In my opinion, when the student reads the articles and summarizes each paragraph in their own words. As a result, the student will be able to write down a topic sentence for each paragraph along with the supporting details. The last sentence of each paragraph will express the idea of the next paragraph. In addition, it is very important to do In-Text citation, while paraphrasing the articles. We have to explain each quotation in our words so we can give credit to the author. I will try to convince the student to re...