Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product
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
Attached Below is a screenshot showing 5 research studies that I have participated in for Psychology. My least favorite one was probably the Story Ratings study. For this one, I had to read 5 or 6 different short stories and answer way too many questions for them. A lot of the questions seemed unnecessary and … Continue reading Extension Project: Research Studies
I am really enjoying this project and how the interviews are turning out! For our interviews, we are playing 5 separate music clips, all of them 30 seconds long, and then asking people how those clips made them feel, what memories it brought up, and a color they would correlate with the song. We put … Continue reading Project 5: Successful Research
Objective: The objective of my project with Carly is to see if there is a correlation of grammar knowledge and the age that one gets a smartphone. We are hoping to show that the earlier you get a phone then the worse your grammar is in the long run. Design/research method: Our research method is … Continue reading Grammar knowledge vs. Age getting a smartphone