Blog Post 16

I found the interview to go well, in this instance, because Courtney and I both are well versed in and both enjoy Halloween. So it was easy to follow up her answers with more questions that pertained to Halloween. I realized that if its something I'm not really familiar with, it might be harder to get my subject to open up about the topic at hand. So I realize with this practice interview that if its a topic I am not familiar with, I'm going to do research to make sure I can follow the participants replies, and ask more informed follow-up question.

Blog Post 15

I will be studying comedy told in monologues focusing on the works of Jon Stewart. I will examine what makes him funny, what makes his audience laugh, what discourse he uses to garner laughs, and how much laughs certain things gets laughs from the audience.

I will study Jon Stewart as my main subject, and in a literature review I will read a paper on Jerry Seinfeld.

I will talk to fans of his and watch clips from the internet

I will collect information by studying clips of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and will interview fans of his to see what makes them find him funny.

Blog Post 14

1. What are some of the things you find funny?
2. What are some of the things you dont find funny?
3. Is there certain types of comedy you find funnier than others?
4. How many things that society considers funny (stand up, improv, sitcoms, sketch varity shows) that
you watch regularly?
5. Is the way its said as important as what is said?

I would show a couple of clips at this point.

6. Did you find those clips funny?
7. What made you laugh about these?
8. If you were to get into comedy, what type of comedy do you?

Blog Post 13

In the Transcript "Chat Room" the subject A speaks about her experience with using and getting to know the web in the early days when it was first becoming widely available. The matter off fact way of talking  and the  inclusion of humorous  stories shows that she doesn't consider a conversation on the early days of her internet experience a serious topic.

The story of her and her friend talking to a boy that turned out to be her bosses on is told in  a way of an embarrassing story you would tell among friends not to a researcher doing a interview.

Research question

If a subject is talking about something nostalgia or something they considered fun, does the language they use show that?

Blog Post 12

I can assume from the transcript,  that Ch is a researcher who is gathering information for an article, but is not looking for anything new, but wants to steer B into giving answers that Ch already has an idea of.

Ch that's literacy - you have the basic tools, the right basic set of assumptions for how to read, understand, interpret a program. And so what I'm looking for is the connection between all the gaming experience you have and your ability to do that with the applications - the academic applications
B well like a lot of games, in the beginning, there's menus. You don't just start playing. There's menus, you get to customize your decal your spray, clothes, 
laughing
It's not all playing the game it's a lot of process to prepare for it, there's like box, scripts, you practice it, and you're not playing with other people, you're just like fooling around.
Ch OK so all those things - same kinds of processes, same kinds of moves - so navigating menus is something you learned from games that can carry over - anything else?

You can see in this exchange Ch lays the framework for an answer with little room for B to stray away from the question, allowing Ch to pretty much control  the interview.

Not only is Ch forcing B into the direction they want, they reaffirm B's answers in their own words to help the subject along.

Research question I would ask is: Is it important to control the interview and keep your subject on point, or are you skewing results by forcing the answers on them.

Blog Post 11

I am doing am doing a research project for my English writing class, that will study stand up comedy and comedians and what makes them "funny." Focusing on what they say, mannerism, interaction with the audience, and the amount of laughs they get. I will ask people who consider themselves fans of stand up comedy to ask them why they enjoy it.

It will be a question and answer interview with notes being taken, and the results will be added in the paper that will be read by faculty and staff of the Kean University English department, and select students in the writing program. Any interview can be stopped and information can be discarded at the participants request at any time during the study.

Blog Post 10

The patterns I noticed in the comments given in each paper started with  something positive to let the student know they were on the right track. As in 4-3  the comments start off with "you have a great start on this," or in 4-4  where the professor leads off with a compliment of  "You defiantly done  a lot of research here!" When it comes to critique I noticed that the Professor chose to  use a question asking system to let them know here they need work. In 4-1 the comments include the phrase "Do you cover all the related ideas for each point in the same section" which seems to suggest that they want the student to include points  that they have left out without coming right out and telling them that.

For a research question I would ask

"Are students drafts better served with professors telling them to specifically change or add something, or by the professors asking questions and letting students come to the conclusion on their own?"