Second Tutoring Session

In this session I was fortunate enough to tutor my students from session one. They were happy to see me and despite having introduced myself last time I reintroduced myself. This time around they had written work and done the research necessary to write their papers. One thing that I found to be interesting was the change of opinion in one of the tutee's minds, she originally believe biculturalism to be a confusion more than a strength but changed her mind. I asked her what changed her mind on the subject at hand and she said that she felt that there was more research for strengths than weaknesses.She also explained that she had some additional trouble with using the databases too. This made me think about the fact that this classroom was lacking lab classroom hours, I think in a 101 class there should be some time given for the students to be shown how to do proper research. But I imagine that in the shorter sessions this must be more difficult to make a reality.
After asking the tutee why she changed her mind I gave her a task of finding her thesis and any supporting details that reinforced it. I then went over the other tutees paper and noted any issues I had with clarity or transitions. We then spent some time discussing some of the issues I saw and I asked her some ways we could address them. I had her write some things down and then I told her to go over the paper and pick any additional areas she wanted to work on, as I helped the other tutee. She had changed her mind and told me that she found more research for strengths. I did the same for this tutee as I did the other, however I did notice some issues with sequencing/transition. I had the tutee number the paragraphs in the order in which she thought they should go and rewrite an outline of the order of the points she wanted to make in a way that made sense.
Though I feel like I did help the tutees I wish that I would have been able to help further in the earlier session with their research process. I hope that through this experience they were able to learn a lot and some ways of becoming better writers.