Tonight's class revealed that data collection is a multi-step process. The first step is to write detailed notes of phenomena that occur during a tutoring session. As a researcher, I am to focus on aspects of the session that relate to my research topic. I am to refrain from drawing premature hypotheses but am to wait until noteworthy occurences begin to reveal themselves over several observed writing sessions.
When note-worthy phenomena begin to emerge, I am to name them. After naming them, hopefully I will begin to be able to draw connections, hypothesize about causes for, effects of, conditions around the observations. I will begin categorizing the phenomena.
S: unpacks her notebooks, pens, worksheets, explains that she needs to work on grammar and citation. Shows tutor her original essay. "This is my original."
T: Reads professor's notes on the top of the paper.
S: Student shows tutor a revised copy and suggests that they work from the revision since it's an updated version with some corrections.
T: (Pauses and stays silent for three-five seconds while she glances over the revision) Agrees to work from revision and suggests that she (the tutor) read the paper. (Leans over as she reads the paper)
After reading the first paragraph, tutor suggests that they work on revising the thesis statement also. But then suggests that student read the paper aloud.
S: Agrees. Student begins to read
T: points out grammatical errors and and asks direct question to encourage the student to verbally clarify the meaning of different lines.
S: Writes on her paper to make grammatical corrections. At tutor's suggestion, uses dictionary.com to find synonyms for words
Tutor and student work this way for two hours-one hour over the time limit. At suggestion of tutor, student writes her main idea for each paragraph on the side of the paper.
At the end, tutor asks student to write a thesis statement. This takes student about seven minutes.
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