Blog 18.. Research PAPER IDEAS!

discussion of research question, description of methods, relevant research.


RESEARCH QUESTION:
How being read aloud as a child contributes to literacy proficiency in a person's middle school years, high school years, and future? 


DESCRIPTION OF METHODS:
For methods, I will use the following:

• Interviewing, I will interview parents who read to their children when younger.
• I will ask the following questions:
• How old was the child when you stopped reading to them?
• What kind of material was read?
• Was their great emphasis on the story?
• What kind of context?
• Was the reading in a group or individual?
• Who were the participants?
• What were the readers and listener's feeling about the specific book.toward event and material?
• What was the level of participation from the listener/reader?
• Were questions asked during the book or after the book?, Were questions aloud?
• Tell me a story, please.  
• Discourse Analysis, I will analyze the transcript from the interview I conduct.
• The DA will show unconscious elements of the transcript.

• WHY IS READING TO CHILDREN IMPORTANT AS A CHILD?
• Because it helps children with their reading scores in their future
• By word association, develops language skills, etc.

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DA PAPER EMAILED TO PROFESSOR

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The research project that I think I want to do is on Children Bedtime Stories.  I want to get information for someone who has read to their children and witnessed if their child became a good or bad read, what kind of reader... I want to research information from a person I probably will be INTERVIEWING as to whether or not reading to children helped them as reader's in general as the child was older.  I also would like to gain and gather information from people who did NOT read read bedtime stories to their children and how their children turned out as a reader in the future.  I want to study this in the home of the person who I will be gaining information from.  I will want to interview the person most likely, not sure yet.  I want to study this because I want to find out if depending on how much a person was read to as a child if it influenced and how much it might have influenced that child as he or she became an adult.  


I know my word usage is a bit confusing.  I THINK THINK THINK I know what I want to do, but I am not sure.  Maybe after some personal feedback from Pro. Chandler, I will be more set on ideas!  

PLAN FOR REVISION FOR DA PAPER

I feel that I did better than expected.  I might consider doing DA for my final paper.  For my revision I will do the following:

• FORM A BETTER OPENING PARAGRAPH
• FORM A BETTER CONCLUSION
• ADD MUCH MORE EVIDENCE
• USE WORDS THAT RESEARCHERS USE SUCH AS 'A REPRESENTS'
• REORGANIZE MY PAPER SO THAT IT IS EASIER TO UNDERSTAND..INSTEAD OF  WRITING MY IDEAS/EVIDENCE POINT BY POINT, I WILL MAKE A PARAGRAPH FOR VICTIM EVIDENCE, THEN A PARAGRAPH FOR REBEL EVIDENCE, THEN I WILL FORM A PARAGRAPH THAT COMPARES VICTIM AND REBEL AND THEN ROVES MY POINT TO MY FOCUS

:D

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*Discuss what you did well + what you need to work on for your DA essay.  Then indicate what kind of feedback you would like from readers.*


My focus and question for this Discourse Analysis essay is:  How does A go from being a victim to a confident and more outgoing person?  What factors influenced A's change and made her able to move from being a victim who was vulnerable, had no control, and almost abused to a rebel who was powerful, capable of inflicting damage, and going outside the rules? 


I think that I did well when it came to pointing out evidence for my focus!  EVIDENCE was easy to find for my focus but then I had to actually state how I think that the subject turned from a victim to a rebel which was hard!!  I hope that I did well.  I think that I did a pretty good job with the paper, but I am not sure if it is exactly what Professor Chandler wanted.  If it is, I know that I got down exactly what I need to do to write an DA paper.  It seems easy to do DA, but to write a paper on it is a totally different story.  If I did, I feel that this was a great accomplishment within this class.  I think I did everything that I was supposed to do, so I really do not have anything to say about what I should have worked on.  Maybe after I receive feedback, I will be able to answer that!


FEEDBACK?
I would like Professor Chandler and my readers to let me know how my organization was and if I elaborated enough on each point.  ALSO, if I did what  I was supposed to do.  Like I said before, I do not know if I did exactly what Professor Chandler wanted.  I would like to know if I stayed on topic and if I 

·         characterize relationships within a body of discursive data
·         discuss your characterizations in a way that connects them to larger discourses
·         explains those connections in terms of a larger argument or theory supported by your data

This is what Prof. wanted..and I THINK I accomplished that.  WE SHALL FIND OUT SOON :)

Also, if I did as well as I THINK I did, I will definitely do my final paper on DA..I know that makes Prof. Chandler happy because of the difficulty in DA.  But, she successfully explained and taught ME DA.. I just hope my DA paper shows that...