By Tara Reid
Andrew
Farinaccio, a journalism and media studies major at Rutgers University, has
just scored a job editing papers at the Livingston Writing Center.
The paid job started on September
22, and Farinaccio will be working every Tuesday from 12 PM to 3 PM for the
rest of the semester.
This semester, Farinaccio will be
tutoring two students each week at the Writing Center.
“We don't have
any walk-in hours so I'll just be focusing on my two tutees per each session
this semester,” Farinaccio said.
On Farinaccio’s first day on the
job, he said he met with one student to go over the assigned readings that must
be referenced in the writing assignment.
“Her reading comprehension skills
didn't seem like they're particularly an issue for her,” Farinaccio said.
Farinaccio
believes that the student found his tutoring helpful because, “she began
to tie together information she was learning from the reading with information
provided by the other reading she had already gone over in class,” he said.
Farinaccio has
been working at the Writing Center for the past 3 weeks now and he said, “the
work isn't strenuous and all of the tutees I'm tutoring are very receptive to
my advice.”
Farinaccio said
it has not been hard to balance the job in addition to his own schoolwork because
“the only time I have to dedicate to the tutees at the Writing Center is during
our scheduled session times,” he said.
“It's also
Writing Center policy to not assist tutees outside of the sessions anyway so
that definitely helps make it less work for me,” Farinaccio said.
Farinaccio does
not currently have any frustrations with the job, “it’s relatively simple work
and I’m really glad to be making some extra money this semester,” he said.
What Farinaccio
likes best about the job is the laid-back attitude at the Writing Center, he
said. As a tutor, Farinaccio was told to
“let the tutees needs dictate what we focus on during the session,” he said.
Farinaccio said
he has not encountered any papers that needed a lot of improvement. The only problems he noticed was that, “they
struggle primarily with the initial formalization of their argument and the
actual structure of their essay,” he said, other than that, the students seem
to be fairly capable writers.
One tutee
Farinaccio met with surprised him, however. “Unlike some of my other tutees, he
seems to be able to formulate some very interesting arguments,” he said.
Farinaccio
was referred to the Livingston Writing Center after getting an A in Research in
the Disciplines, a course taught by professor Dr. Elizabeth Gardner.
During this course Farinaccio gained
experience writing and editing papers since throughout the course, students were
assigned to peer edit each other’s papers.
He said he probably discovered his
knack for editing papers while in this course. When it comes to editing, “I would say that I specialize in both research writing and
expository writing,” says Farinaccio.
In order to be a good editor, one
must be a good writer. Farinaccio said
he noticed he might have a knack for writing during his junior year of high
school when he took an AP English Language course. “I received better grades than I initially
expected myself to,” said Farinaccio.
Farinaccio will most likely reapply
for the job in the spring semester depending on his spring semester’s course
workload.
Photo: Andrew Farinaccio in the SC&I building
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