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1. An advising moment
• About signing up for ENGL 693....
• Any other questions about winter?

2. Progress reports!
• “Touch it every day” can work!
• Think “microproductivity” too.
• Some good stories about gathering
research and doing reading
• Deciding not to do something still equals
progress

3. Progress reports!
• Talking with others and getting an advisor is
progress, too.
• Remember: there’s the project for this class
and then there’s “The Project,” e.g., 693
• While we’re talking about schedules....

4. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• Surveys both quantitative and qualitative
method.
• Touching briefly on “focus group”
• “Phenomenological Interviews”

5. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• “Do your homework” in terms of
background of interviewee, etc.
• Write and revise questions
• Keep the logistics of interviews in mind
• “Phenomenological Interviews”
• As for transcribing: try an internet search
• Good point on “Personal and theoretical
lenses” and Gluck and Patai

6. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• “Questionnaire” informal, “Survey” formal
(I guess...)
• Also differences in size and sampling
• Ask questions for which you want
information (and not because you’re
curious)
• Get others to help come up with and
revise your questions

7. Carrie and Graham on
Surveys...

8. Beason, “Ethos and
Error”
• Smart idea to find out what nonacademic
readers think of “errors” or “mistakes”
• Errors as “bothersome”
• I think a very clever survey/questionnaire
(for example, 40)
• The survey’s “mixed results” are itself an
interesting result (46)

9. Beason, “Ethos and
Error”
• Interviews suggest errors = judgements
about writers
• My experience in using this article in my
teaching....