3.7 Short analysis project

We spent today's class tying up loose ends so you are ready to work on your short analysis project.

1.We talked through the list of language features you might want to look at as you work on the language in your data set.

2. We looked at the assignment sheet for the short analysis project

3. And we talked about how you might want to choose a data set for "practice" on your short anlysis project => the idea is to choose a data set that is similar to the data you will be analyzing for your research project.  One purpose of this project is for you to PRACTICE analysis language data (and get some feedback on how to do it better), so you will have that part down for your research project.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because the purpose of this project is practice = unless you are coming up with a radically different question about the chat room transcript & unless you are analyzing features different from the ones we discussed in class => you need to pick a different data set. 

For next class:
Blog 13 (I fixed this - I put up blog 14 but it should be 13): develop writing for your short analysis project.  This should include:
your research question
your analysis of your data
what ever writing you have developed to discuss that patterns you see in your data that provide an "answer" or ideas about your research question.

If you want written feedback on your "draft" => send me an email by Saturday, March 16 (I had the dates wrong in the last post) telling my your work is posted on your blog.

On Tuesday, March 19, we will workshop what you have written so far, and you will schedule conferences (if you want to) on what to do next.

Have a great break!