A2 computer room lesson 28/9/15

Investigatives,

please blog about your coursework ideas. Include the following (and anything else relevant):

• hypothesis to test (someone's theory about what you will find in the type of language you are investigation) - phrase it as a statement e.g. A different consumer will be built in adverts for ready meals sold at different price points (based on Fairclough)' or 'The language of young women discussing both 'male' and 'female' topics will show Lakoff's deficit features.' you do not have to believe that this will be the case - it is for you to TEST/explore.
• a description of what you are planning to collect and why, showing evaluation of the complexities/difficulties of data selection and exploring what sample data might tell you/has told you
• what type of investigation you are doing e.g. experiment, longitudinal study etc? (Remember the Powerpoint?). Are you thinking of using any additional data e.g. a questionnaire? Why?
• any questions or sub-headings you might choose to structure your analysis and what they might help you explore
• any issues you expect to come up and how you will handle that in the analysis/evaluation
• what your media text could be about and how that links to the theory area you are using
• any questions you have that someone might help you answer, help you need

read and comment on the ideas of others. What do you predict they might find? What seems exciting and why? What problems can you forsee that they could consider? How does it connect/contrast with what you are doing? What help can you offer, if any?

We will soon be writing methodologies to ensure that you collect your data appropriately, so plan that for homework for next Friday: how can you show you have considered the complexities of the data pool you are collecting from? What exact steps are you taking to ensure that your data is comparable/reliable/ethical?

edit: because I am ill and won't be there, I expect to find your comments on at LEAST two other posts and for you to talk to each other about your sample data so we can have shorter, more focussed conversations when I get back - if you really need to, email me but I am a too poorly to do much at the computer, although I will check my email during the lesson. Good luck.