The purpose of this research project is to discover what, if any kind of tutor influence elicits confidence reactions in students and under what conditions. Finding whether or not a tutor can provoke confidence in students and how, has many implications for tutoring and teaching pedagogy. An individual’s lack of confidence in his/her ability to complete a task inhibits their ability to carry out said task. Often time’s writers come to tutoring or English class with a negative attitude about their writing ability. They make statements like, “I suck at writing.” This lack of confidence can also prevent a student from beginning a writing assignment as they sometimes feel like they are too incompetent. The hope is that a tutor’s influence can offset writers’ self-defeating attitudes and inspire confidence that will enable a writer to take chances and grow.
List of tentative sources:
JAY PARINI, "A WRITING TEACHER IS LIKE A PSYCHOANALYST, ONLY LESS WELL PAID"
"DETENTE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY?" BY LEONARD D. GOODSTEIN
Murphy, "Freud in the Writing Center"
The Structure and Culture of Developing a Mathematics Tutoring Collaborative in an Urban High School -Erica N. Walker
The type of information that I will need to gather will come from research databases containing scholarly sources. The searches criteria will pertain to body language and other nonverbal indicators of confidence, tutoring techniques that are successful in promoting confidence, tutors disposition and how it affects writers, confidence level and task completion, lack of confidence and writers block. I also want to gather good observation data from my classmates’ sessions as well as my own sessions.
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