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I'm in a graduate program right now to become an English teacher. One of the classes I'm currently taking requires that I tutor a student in writing for a total of 14 hours. I found a tutee, but we haven't met yet. I'm looking for advice and/or resources on how to tutor writing to a high school student.

I asked a teacher I'll be long-term subbing for to help me select a tutee, so I don't know too much about her yet. I think she is either in ESOL or is in AP Literature but has difficulty writing (or maybe both). If you have any advice pertaining to either of these 2 categories, I'd very much like to hear it!

Thanks for the help!

That's my plan. However, I'm not sure what to do from there to be very effective. Should I just use my best judgement, or are there methods for tutoring?

 When really good writers are interviewed and asked how they became good writers they almost always, among other things, say by reading other good writers.

Apply this to your method of teaching this young writer. Don't be afraid to thumb through other works and have your student mimic the way things are elaborated (for example) by the author.