Duke Maddox
Ms.Taylor
ENGL 1106
2/26/20
I thought the reading had some very useful information about conducting your own research. One of the key things that stuck out to me was the ethics of self-conducted research I haven’t thought much about, especially researcher bias. I may need to think about the questions I plane to ask more to make sure they do not influence my participants into answering a certain way. I already started some of my interviews, but I may now tweak the questions.
- There are a few people studying
- A guy with a mustache and earbuds walked in
- Light is coming in through the skylights
- There is a Trash Truck outside
- There is a submarine behind me
- Downstairs there are two boys working together.
- Many people have headphones on.
- People are biking and walking outside.
- I can hear someone trying to open a plastic bag downstairs
- I can hear a door creaking open behind me
- It is so quiet I can hear the hum of the air conditioner.
- Someone walked in in a suit
- Someone is walking outside with a coat and shorts on.
- A guy came in and opened the big steel black door.
- Another person with a suit came in.
I took my notes on word so all my stuff would be together. I chose the most interesting things that I did due to how unique they felt. I feel like the submarine was something unique to that building, and a guy wearing shorts in February with a coat is a little weird. I chose the building across the bridge because I knew there was a study common, I could sit in, and that people would already be in there. To write about a quiet place like causes you to begin focusing on some of the smaller things you may not have realized if you where just passing through.
Duke Maddox 