Now I know what my tutors has been through…when we are students we think that the most difficult thing in the world is to write an essay and we tend to think that the tutor’s job is just a piece of cake compared to it. It isn’t.
I got the first draft of my students’s essays and finding the energy to read many pieces in a short period of time is not always easy. I spent hours and hours over the weekend trying to find ways of helping them to express themselves better while conforming with academic writing standards. This is not an easy task because sometimes the academic style in their own cultures is quite different from ours. Moreover, sometimes there are language problems but we cannot really work on grammar and vocab in a short course like this.
Apart from that, it is a fascinating task because I am learning a lot with them about other fields of knowledge that are completely different from mine. Also seeing how people express their ideas in so many diverse ways is always extremely instructive 
