3. Experimental Research
• More on MacNealy
• Type 1 vs Type II errors and significance (96-97)
• Interval and ratio variables and surveys (100-1)
• A Krause story about statistical counseling
4. Experimental Research
• More on Hillocks
• What do you think of the experiment?
• What do you think about the controls?
• What about the scoring system?
• What about the results (PS, remember this was
done in 1979)
5. Experimental Research
• Why don’t comp/rhet people do much
experimental research nowadays?
• (Maybe they should...)
• Costs, especially relative to gains
• Math
• The nature of writing...
• Reliability versus validity
6. Conferences & Posters
• Why go to a conference in the first place?
• Scholarship
• Learning from others
• Networking and/or “entering the parlor”
• They’re fun
7. Conferences & Posters
• Building off the tips from the readings
• Regional, topic-oriented, national conferences
• Conference themes do (and don’t) matter
• Format matters
• Proposals should be clear, direct, short, and have
a “plan”
8. Conferences & Posters
• Posters are (relatively) new to our field
• Great way to “get into” presenting at a
conference and/or Grad Research Fair
• Using PowerPoint to make them...
9. How this figures into
the class
• Final poster presentation (or....)
• Last day of class, December 8
• Also due then will be your “major
deliverable” for the Project Portfolio
