Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product
At first this research project seemed very daunting, it seemed as it it would take a great deal of effort and persistence to complete. Once me and Elijah completed making the survey questions and formating the survey itself we began conducting it, which I thought would be a long and boring task involving a lot … Continue reading Field Notes
Field Narrative: So far, I’ve been able to play through about a third of the missions that I’m going to do for the Halo Combat Evolved Campaign. So far, the results have been interesting. As I have already played all of the Halo games (because I am a huge fan of the Halo universe), I … Continue reading project 5 Field Notes
My research topic is to see how social media negatively affects face to face communication. Since this topic is very controversial. What we mainly ask people is why they either prefer and/or use a certain method of communication. We ask them that because then they are explaining to us why that method is the most … Continue reading Social media vs. face to face communication field notes
Day 3 into our experiment, I have already gathered a handful of interesting observations. On Day 2 I sent out a short story from 1886, Anyuta, by Anton Chekhov. I had attached the follow up question: What do you think of these characters? Sifting through the replies to the story I realized the majority of … Continue reading Field Notes
Field Narrative: A particularly interesting trend that I’ve noticed so far from our collected data, is that 50% of the people who have taken our survey, marked down for experiencing some type of negative effects or impacts from the use of social media. Despite this, 30% of people who took our survey marked for going … Continue reading Field Notes
I have been pleasantly surprised how well research has been going! We are using both a survey and short interviews to collect data. Our interviews consist of three short questions. We did that so we could get them done fast and conduct a larger amount of the interviews. Each day we each split up and … Continue reading Project 5: Field Notes
We began to try and answer our research question this week by conducting many surveys. The first two days we went out and did in person surveys outside of the Viking Union. Our survey consisted of asking people at what age they first got a phone, what they are majoring in, and then we had … Continue reading Project 5
Extension # A Literacy Narrative Converted to Poem! Carly Spradlin The Help Literacy Narrative Poem Rachel Ayres gave me this book, it caused me to take a second look, I realized how truly lucky I am, Going to school and getting to live in Bellingham. Gorgeous Arizona Spring break views, with bright yellow … Continue reading Extension Project 1
Hello all! I’d like to share a few points about the data that my partner Derek and I have collected over the past few days through our survey about digital and printed media. To begin, there have been a few stand out datum that we thought were a little groovy and worth sharing; and afterward, … Continue reading Interesting outcomes regarding digital and printed media
As we continue to move forward into the semester, our projects become more involved. For some this may be interviewing a large amount of WWU students in the hopes of collecting high quality data. Project 5 has come up with little to no resistance. We have begun the process of lining up interviews, as well … Continue reading Project 5 – Field Notes