Conversations or communication events are often overlooked as simple exchanges of information between individuals. However, conversations can often reveal more than the information exchanged. Conversations can reveal participants' roles and personalities. They can also help distinguish levels of group integration and cohesion. According to Nancy Bonvillain, communicative exchanges “reveal underlying cultural patterns of behavior, rights, and obligations,” which are often factors that influence individual identity and group construction (Bonvillain 2010: 114). However, to extract these underlying elements, conversations must be analyzed in depth. According to Bonvillain, conversations are composed of turn-taking that can reveal roles of power, status and influence of the participants in a conversation (Bonvillain 2010: 114). Multiparty conversations allow for a more in-depth analysis of turns because they are more flexible in pattern, equality, and format than two-party exchanges (Bonvillain 2010: 115). Turns can vary in length and style. Therefore, they are a perfect analytical tool for long conversations that may contain more than one topic and lack a distinct focus. Accordingly, I chose to analyze turn-taking patterns in a 15-minute excerpt from a longer conversation between nine college-age students. Through analysis, I was able to identify the role, status and level of cohesion between group members. The conversation takes place in a classroom among nine college-age students involved in a peer mentor program. The students just finished a course on Careers and Resume Preparation. This is their last discussion class and they plan to go out to dinner and celebrate afterward. One of the students, Cameron, is in charge of leading the main topic and introducing the dinner. The conversation begins as a discussion about careers and resumes