Empirical Research II

This post goes with what Michelle talked about in a previous post about empirical research. As I was reading the last part of Coogan's book, I coudln't help but think about the fact that he uses this as dissertation and because so, makes choices that might not have been made otherwise. I'm wondering how this research would have been different if he would have observed another tutor/tutee correspondence and not heavily relied upon his own. Since he is very invested in helping his students, not just because he is a tutor, but because he is doing research, he seems to only highlight those instances where the tutor session works with his research. I think he could have done a better job explaining his role as a researcher and how that might have changed his tutoring.