Live Tutoring Observation

During my first live tutoring session, my student unfortunately did not have her gentrification paper with her. She asked me to wait while she ran to print it, but after almost 40 minutes she came back and said the line was too long and she couldn't print it out for me. So for the remaining 15 minutes that we had together, I asked her what ideas and arguments she had so far in her paper. She couldn't really remember much of what she had written, which made it difficult to assess how she was doing. I asked her if she could give me a general summary of her thesis and some of her paragraphs, and she was unable to tell me what her thesis was about, but she gave me little tidbits from her other main paragraphs, so I just helped her sort some of her ideas together. I felt like I couldn't do much without her paper being there and her lack of memory, so I asked if she had her readings. She showed me a few of them and let me read them myself when I asked her what they were about, and I tried to work together with her on what points she could use in her paper to strengthen her arguments. The last thing I found to work on with her was finally to have her tell me what a "reintegration" sentence is, and what she had come up with because her professor wanted her to use one. She flipped through her notes and showed me what she had written down as a definition for reintegration, and together we agreed that somewhere in the conclusion she should add it in to mainly summarize and focus on her argument.
During the session I tried to take down some notes here and there, and also tried to come up with a plan of action for when I left. I wrote down a few things for her such as reorganizing common ideas together, making a clearer thesis and argument if she felt they were a bit fuzzy, and coming up with a good reintegration sentence. Overall it was a difficult session, I found it hard to find things to talk to her about because her paper was not in front of me and she didn't remember enough of what she wrote for me to really help her as much as I wish I could have.