My fourth and final tutoring session with Cyan also focused
on practicing for the independent writing portion of the TOEFL. I sent him a
copy of the grading rubric and had him write another composition based on one
of the topics, and this time in going through it I focused more on specific
grammatical errors and awkward style. One thing I noticed with his writing was
a tendency to overuse commas or not use them when necessary. He would use slashes
to state two connected ideas (“imagination/intelligence are important…”) and
use commas in a similar fashion for more complicated ideas, rather than
connecting his thoughts with transition phrases or new sentences. We also went
over subject/verb and pronoun/antecedent agreement, in particular making sure
to use the correct verb conjugations for single vs. plural subjects and making
sure the antecedent to which a pronoun is referring is clear within the
sentence. Cyan occasionally has a tendency to omit the pronoun “it” in impersonal
statements.
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