Be sure, before the session ends, that you've made good on your promise to discuss his concerns. When a paper has many problems, you'll have to prioritize among them. In general, we believe that thinking problems are more serious than sentence problems. After all, we can help writers to compose lovely sentence, but if the ideas are flawed those sentences don't add up to much. Syntax and Grammar Note that our recommendations are general, not absolute.
Every paper is different and calls for different approaches.
Or the problems of a particular paragraph seem important to the larger argument that the writer is trying to make. Pacing the Tutoring Session After you've tutored a few times, you'll develop a sense of what you can and cannot accomplish in a one-hour tutoring session. You'll also develop a sense for where you are in a tutoring session without having to rely too often on the clock. In your first few sessions, however, you may be surprised at how fast an hour can fly. If you've spent ten or fifteen minutes reading the paper, and another five or ten minutes talking with the writer about his aims, you may find yourself with only half an hour to address the paper's problems.