These questions were: Is it fair to assume that a student knows what a "preposition" is or understands the term "subject-verb agreement" and is it better, in terms of diagnosing errors in students' writing and timing, to have the student read the entire article or to stop at each paragraph These questions arose during the observation because, in terms of the first question, the tutors jumped right into the session using terms like "parallel structure" and "possessive nouns" and I always wondered if the tutor could do justice to the terms by defining and using examples to make the term more concrete for the student So my answer to the question is that I will always ask the students if they understand what I'm saying and I'll let them know that it's okay to stop at any point in the session to explain everything I said The second question arose because in sessions where the tutor had the student read the entire article at once , he usually went back and reread sentences and paragraphs. In sessions where the tutor had the student read the document paragraph by paragraph, the session was better managed in terms of time and made it easier for students to focus on errors regarding the organization of their document. So, my answer to this question is that I will have students read their papers paragraph by paragraph,