Final Reflection

My question for the research project regarding resistance in the writing center received lots of varying feedback. Some students suggested drawing many comparisons from my literature review. There are those who mentioned questioning who was required to come to the reading and writing center, but considering that was one of the special topic suggestions from project two, I likely won’t consider that suggestion as much. One of the suggestions I enjoyed most was recognizing patterns, though this wouldn’t quite illuminate on resistance as a whole, I think it might work in terms of identifying different resistance responses. I’m not sure who wrote this specific suggestion, but one student emphasized the recognition of resistance as more important than techniques. I agree most with this suggestion because we have reviewed a multiplicity of techniques to counter resistance in class, and a more interesting paper would draw upon how tutors recognize the initial responses. Some people wrote comments about imploring body language questions further, which I do plan to do. I’m not sure if I will get a significant amount of feedback from those whom I interview on body language, because I personally haven’t paid much attention to my own while tutoring, but I do hope that there will be some information as I think it will be an intriguing subtopic. All together I enjoyed the feedback I received from my classmates, it gave me good insight on topics that would be most interesting to people, and those which have been covered time and time again and would likely result in a boring paper. I’m really looking forward to begin analyzing my data, I think I will likely interview three people rather than two, because I would prefer a wider range of results as far as tutors personal observations. I will be looking into further research about body language and it’s role in tutoring, especially it’s role in countering resistance. I think most of my annotations were well done so I plan to integrate that research into my questions, and keep most of that information in mind before my interviews, so that I can make coherent comparisons and contrasts to the works.