3.21 Another workshop for the Short Analysis project

You did a great job working on your papers today.  You worked in pairs using the workshop sheet to guide your talk.  We focused on identifying:

a research question => this question needed to make a point about what the data shows or how it works for some purpose or with respect to a larger context.  For example, while you might analyze your data in terms of how often and in what contexts speakers use hedges (like, I guess, maybe, should. . .) => your research question needs to ask what it means when speakers use hedges in terms of comfort (for example) and why it is important that the speakers were comfortable or uncomfortable at a particular point.

the language features you will analyze (these are your categories) = they might be any of the features on the language handout posted to the right, or they might be some other language move you named/noticed in the data

patterns in the features you analyze

what those patterns show about your research question

For Tuesday:
If you want written comments => post your draft paper by Sunday night - and send a request for comments to the course email.   Otherwise the paper will be due posted on the blog on Thursday, March 28 before class.

Read: Oral Histories => In class we will be starting on creating, conducting + analyzing interviews.

If you want to schedule another conference - anytime before next Thursday - you are also welcome to do so.
So far I have:
Monday: 1:00 =Derrick,
Tuesday: 12:45 Rikki; 3:30 Mike

In class we will be getting started on planning interviews.  We will check in on your projects - and hopefully everyone can get started collecting data on or before April 2.

Great class today!