Blog #15: Introduction

Introduction
Student’s will drop-in or sign –up to use the writing center for many different reasons. They also come with different learning style and backgrounds. Students may be sent to the writing center by their professor or come on their own. The reason students come to the writing center, varies however they all have one thing in common…and that is the use of body language. This thesis will focuses mainly on body language and how it works in a coaching session. I believe that body langue gives clues to both parties (the coach and student) and allows each individual to feed off the other person’s body language for clues on how to precede with the coaching session. I want to prove that body language is just as important, or more important as verbal communication.
Research Question:
My focus is to decide if the Understanding non-verbal communication (body language) is just as important, if not more important as verbal communication.