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Navigating the Process Approach  \nThe challenges of implementing the process approach in a reallife setting are explored through the eyes of a MA TESOL student. While working her 2nd semester as an individual tutor for a developmental writer, the author discovers unexpected interdependencies among tutor, student, classroom teacher, and curriculum designer. This article dissects that experience, reflecting on specific challenges to draw insight on the effectiveness of the process approach with L2 students and the pedagogical implications for apreservice teacher.  \nAs a part of my MA TESOL training at San José State University (SJSU),  \nI worked as a tutor in the Language Development Center (LDC) . There  \nI saw firsthand how students struggled with the writing process. And, as a novice tutor, I saw how much I struggled to help them. The idea for this article grew out of that experience—an experience that gave me insights into the interactive roles of tutor-teacher, tutor-curriculum designer, and tutor-student, particularly when working with L2 students. The experience also gave me the opportunity to benchmark my own professional development as a second language teacher at a time when I was a novice teacher.  \nWorking With Thomas on Process  \nThe writing competency requirements at SJSU share characteristics with other universities in the CSU system. At SJSU, upperclassmen must pass a test of writing skills before they can proceed with their major area of study. If a student fails the writing test, the student must enroll in and successfully complete a 10-week writing course. I tutored students in a two-credit writing lab that is offered as an optional elective in conjunction with this writing course. The purpose ofthe lab is to coach the students through the composition steps of three essays that comprise their final portfolios and to help them plan for a reflective cover letter that is the final in-class assignment.  \nMy tutee was enrolled in the developmental writing lab in the spring semester of 2011. Thomas (a pseudonym) was an Art major. He also fits the typical profile of a “Generation 1.5” student: He emigrated from Thailand with his family when he was 7, spoke Thai at home, and attended U.S. public schools.  \nThe CATESOL Journal 23.1 • 2011/2012 • 45  \nThomas transferred from a California community college before entering SJSU as a junior. I tutored Thomas for two 1-hour sessions per week for 10 weeks, a total of 20 hours. During this time, Thomas wrote three essays for his writing class using a multidraft process approach. These essays, plus an in-class final essay, constituted his final portfolio for the course. Before working with Thomas, I had little experience with a multidraft process approach; during my undergraduate work I did little drafting and revision on my own essays and none of my classes used portfolios.  \nAs a novice tutor, I readily accepted the strong emphasis on meaning rather than form in the process approach. However, I was surprised at how difficult it was for me as a tutor to help Thomas find his point. His ideas seemed unorganized and disconnected and it was difficult to know where to start to help him clarify his meaning. I had already tutored freshmen students the previous semester and I had found it relatively easy to know how to proceed. However, Thomas was facing much more complex assignments than my prior tutees—assignments that required him to analyze rhetorical strategies in a written document from his major field of study.  \nI decided to start our work together by teaching a default strategy. Collins (1998) argues that default writing strategies have a positive purpose because they are strategies that writers can fall back on when the writing task becomes too difficult. In teaching this strategy to my tutee, I realized the “default strategy” concept also applied to me as a novice tutor. 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