Satellite Observation 2

I went to the BCC for my second satellite observation. I walked in convinced that because this was a business writing center and that it was primarily for business students that somehow the material, client, tutor, and session would all be vastly different from either the Bessey or the library. I was wrong. The session I observed could have taken place at either Bessey or the library, the concerns were the same for the client and the solutions were the same for tutor. I was very impressed by how smoothly the tutoring style we learned in Bessey can be applied with only slight differences to the business center. The client came in with questions about grammar and the tutor explained that grammar isn't the main concern of the writing center, the writing style is. The tutor worked through the paper with the student pointing out sentences that didn't make sense, paragraphs that weren't in the best order, and other such problems. She also addressed a reoccurring grammar problem, the student had some trouble staying in the same tense within a paragraph. The client seemed pleased with the way the session had gone and the tutor was happy too. I guess what most surprised me in the BCC were the ESL students and TV. I'm not sure why I thought that the BCC would have fewer ESL students than we receive in Bessey, but I was incorrect in this assumption. The TV was something I wasn't that big of a fan of. I have trouble concentrating on what I'm reading if there is background noise to interrupt my attention. Even when I'm in Bessey, if their is another session going on at the same table I'm at, I have to tune out the other tutor and client so that I can give my client all of my attention; therefore extra noise proves very distracting for me.