Module 5

Module 5

 

Module 5 is pretty straightforward. First, you need to send me your first draft of your Literature Review. That was last week’s assignment. In case there are technical glitches, please email it to me AND also post it to your blog. I’ll send you my comments within 2 days so you can revise it by the end of Week 5. 

 

1) By the end of Week 5, then, you should have a revised final draft of your Lit Review posted to your blog. 

 

2) Please also record a brief oral presentationto share with your classmates. In your presentation, you should a) introduce yourself, b) introduce your topic, c) share a couple of things you’ve already learned about your topic as you began your research this semester. Post the video somewhere online (e.g. youtube) and post the link to your survey to your blog.

 

3) Meanwhile, start to think about the next phase of your research, the survey questionnaire. What aspects of your topic could you learn more about if you conducted a survey? Sticking with the sample topic from last week, for example, a researcher might survey college students about their attitudes toward water pipe smoking. Maybe the researcher wants to find out if the practice is most common among freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors; or why they do it; or whether they do it alone or as part of a group. Thinking about your own topic, how might a survey of attitudes, or usage, or practice, experience, etc. shed light on your topic? Describe, in a sentence or two, your initial thoughts about your survey, and post this to your blog.