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ONLINE SURVEY SITES
• Survey Monkey
• Survey Gizmo
• Google Forms
P LU S S O M E R E S U M E S T U F F
FINDINGS REPORT
RAW DATA VS FINDINGS
• Raw data = information collected through your survey/experiment
• Tables, charts, and graphs that organize single survey answers represent RAW DATA
• Listing the raw data you have found DOES NOT count as a finding
FINDINGS
• Findings are inferences
• Findings are new knowledges
• Findings are what happens when you ANALYZE your data rather than simply recounting your survey results
• Findings usually signify trends, correlations, and potentially causations you find when analyzing your raw data
FINDINGS
• Findings are also new knowledges produces through your interviews and focus groups
• Findings ARE NOT simply quoting an interviewee
• Findings go a step further – discussing and analyzing these interview responses in the greater context of your whole project
REMEMBER…
• Your presentation and paper will have both raw data AND findings, but one without the other will not be sufficient
• Questions?
FINDINGS REPORT EXPECTATIONS
A detailed description of the
• Survey sample (your demographic group)• instrument (your survey/bigger questions)• analysis method
Your actual survey should go in an Appendix at the back of your paper.
EXAMPLE
Acceptable:
I created a 17 questions survey geared to gauge the feelings of Penn State seniors in a Fraternity towards X, Y, and Z. This survey helped to answer my larger questions ____________________ & _________________. (See Appendix 1 for a complete set of survey questions).
BAD EXAMPLE
I created a 17 question survey. The questions were:1. Blah2. Meh3. Flah4. BuhAd infinitum
FINDINGS REPORT EXPECTATIONS
Interviews- The most descriptive section of your paper in terms
of language – we still maintain academic objectivity when appropriate, but allow for subjective reflection- Description of interviewee- Description of interview environment (if
appropriate)- Summary of interview with direct quotation – there
should be more of you than your interviewee- Explanation of the interview’s PURPOSE – how it
relates back to your larger project.
FINDINGS REPORT EXPECTATIONS
Effective use of tables or figures to illustrate the data or numbers gathered by the survey
Remember the misleading/poorly made graphsDon’t do that
FINDINGS REPORT EXPECTATIONS
Writing and Language:A blend of 1. objective writing – keep your scientific/academic
distance2. reflexive reactions – your personal response
(still written in a formal voice) to your data/interviews/results
3. secondary sources for triangulation – when appropriate, relate back specific articles from your lit review.
FINDINGS REPORT EXPECTATIONS
• A conclusion that details new knowledge (findings) about the topic that you have gained through interviews and surveys
OVERALL STRUCTURE
Title – the more specific, the better
Introduction – keep rewriting intro from Research Proposal/Lit Review (READ MY COMMENTS)
Methodology
Data – with visuals
Conclusion/Findings
QUESTIONS?
RESUMES
• Like cover letters, resumes have a rhetorical purpose
• Treat your resume LIKE A NARRATIVE
• Good stories don’t have extraneous parts – every single piece of information on your resume should be working to telling the same (good) story
EXAMPLE
When I apply to professor jobs, I will most likely not include my time working at- Target- A lumber yard- As an athletic trainer- As a grader for my undergrad math department
EXAMPLE
I will include- Research assistant for literary journal- High school teacher/dorm administrator - The fact that I teach all of you fine people
REMEMBER
The resume isn’t a place to simply list everything about you. It’s designed to spark an interest in you as potential future employee.
DUTIES VS. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Instead of this:
• Responsible for developing a new filing system
• In charge of customer complaints and all ordering problems
• Won a trip to Europe for opening the most new customer accounts in my department
Do This:
• Developed a filing system that reduced paperwork by 50 percent
• Resolved customer complaints and product order discrepancies
• Generated the highest number of new customer accounts in my department
ACTION VERBS
AccomplishedAchievedAdministeredApprovedArrangedAssistedAssumedBudgetedChairedChangedCompiledCompletedCoordinatedCreated
Demonstrated
DevelopedDirectedEstablishedExploredForecastedGeneratedIdentifiedImplementedImprovedInitiatedIntroducedInvestigatedLaunched
MaintainedManaged
MotivatedNegotiatedOperatedOrganizedOversawParticipatedPerformedPresentedProposedRaisedRecommendedReduced
ReorganizedResolvedSaved
ServedSimplifiedSparked StreamlinedStrengthenedSucceededSupervisedSystematizedTargetedTrainedTransformed
DON’T OVERDO IT