Myers vs. North/Brooks

Myers acknowledges that the best form of tutoring is minimalist tutoring, but states that ESL students will have a more difficult time taking direction regarding their writing and require more attention than the average student. She also says that "sentence level" corrections may actually improve ESL students as writers, and help them better understand the phrasing and sentence structure utilized in the language they are struggling to learn. This differs from the opinions of Brooks and North because they believe that the main focus should be on the writer and that the tutor should be more focused on the structural and content problems rather than spending time on sentence structure and simple language errors. They would be angered by this abandonment of minimalist tutoring and general focus on editing rather than tutoring. However, although these two intellectuals may disagree with this take on tutoring, it is highly necessary to focus on the small, grammatical issues on the paper in order to further submerse these foreign students into the mannerisms and phrasings used in this new and scary language.