Sunday, May 07, 2006
I cannot wait!
I am about to finish with my job responsibilities and then I'll have time to continue working with my research. I am anxious to go back to Chapter Three and continue working with its changes, corrections, and additions. This should be my first step; then Chapter Two revisions will follow.
After these revisions get done I'll be able to start working with the organization of my data. I have identified all the cases I'll be studying already. This, I did as I got ready for my Proposal Presentation. My data is archived in a public online discussion forum. I have permission from the web site administrator and I also have the IRB approval from UF to conduct my research project.
The process of organizing the data includes creating tree diagrams of threaded discussions. From the tree diagrams, each branch will be converted into a story, one that will be analyzed following J. P. Gee's (2005) discourse analysis. In my pilot study each thread included at least three stories, we'll see if this is the case in the other threaded discussions as well.
I cannot wait!!!
After these revisions get done I'll be able to start working with the organization of my data. I have identified all the cases I'll be studying already. This, I did as I got ready for my Proposal Presentation. My data is archived in a public online discussion forum. I have permission from the web site administrator and I also have the IRB approval from UF to conduct my research project.
The process of organizing the data includes creating tree diagrams of threaded discussions. From the tree diagrams, each branch will be converted into a story, one that will be analyzed following J. P. Gee's (2005) discourse analysis. In my pilot study each thread included at least three stories, we'll see if this is the case in the other threaded discussions as well.
I cannot wait!!!
