The Dependant writer is hard to shake... I have extremely dependent students, when they are searching for answers in their book to answer some questions, they keep asking to show them where the answer is. I hold back and tell them to look and shuffle through the pages on their own to find the answer. They get very frustrated me, and they don't like me so much anymore. But in my case, by law, the students have to come back to school. It's shaky grounds with a tutee... if they feel as if they are too frustrated or aren't being helped in the way they feel is the way to be helped, they won't show up the next time. Kristin Walker's essays gives clear perspectives on why a tutee would be dependent, and I think that the sheet she provides definitely helps the tutee with their own accountability for their paper.
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