Today’s Plan:
- Revisiting Tuesday’s Discussion
- Writing a Methodology Section
Discussion
I think there are a few questions lingering from Tuesday’s discussion:
- To what extent is an education in literature, or writing, an education in values?
- Can you think of a time in which your values came into conflict with your education?
- Why are you here? [And, if memory serves, I asked you all to think about an answer to this question]
Writing a Methodology Section
Generally, a methodology section requires you to cover three basic things:
- How did they collect samples? Identify research participants? Develop a corpus of texts? [How did they collect research stuff?]
- What did they do to their research stuff?
- If they made a survey, how did they generate questions?
- If a drug trial, did they use a control group?
- If they collected texts, how did they analyze them?
- [How did they turn stuff into data]?
- How did they ensure their data / analysis was reliable?
Let’s look at the quantitative and qualitative sections of this page.
So, how do we apply this to the Job Report Project. This link might help, (since I described how I collected the ads (and some other stuff), i.e., [condense my Brumberger and Lauer discussion]?
