Post your purpose + your research question. Do some brainstormy writing about what you will observe at sessions to gather data for your project.
The purpose of this research is to discover if and how writing coaches’ behavior affects confidence in students who come to the writing center. What conditions, and what behaviors of both tutor and writer can affect the confidence the writer?
Many writers come to the center lacking confidence, which is indicated by their use of self-defeating statements upon entering the session. It isn’t uncommon for a tutor to hear a student introduce himself saying something like, “Hi, I’m (student’s name), and I suck at writing.” What events prelude statements such as the aforementioned? What can a tutor do to change these sentiments? But there is also a population of students who come to the center and remain unchanged in terms of confidence increase and decrease regardless of tutor behavior. This type of writer might say to a tutor something like, “My paper is good but I just want you to look it over”, and after the session, “Thanks a lot, pretty good right?”
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