Blog 8: Interview Protocol

Interview Protocol Draft 1

The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the revision techniques for graded writing assignments of high school and college students in an effort to see if there is a growth or decline in ability with advancing education.

For High School Students:
How are you?

How old are you?

Did you grow up in a small town or big city or in between?

What high school do you go to?

They say an author’s secret penname is a combination of the name of your first pet and the street you brought up on. What would your secret penname be?

How do you view writing?

How do you define good writing?

Do you feel good writing just happens or do you have to work on it?

If good writing results when you work on it, what does that work entail?

How do you feel when you are first given a written assignment to do in a class, such as an essay?

Tell me about a time you had a writing assignment and what you did after you first wrote it all out.

Define revision in writing assignments.

How do you revise your papers?

How do you feel about revising your writing?

Do you only revise writing assignments if they will be graded?

What makes the difference in the need to revise?

Is there some writing assignments you do revise and others you do not?

Do you feel more obligated to revise your writing for an English class?

If yes, then why?

Tell me about a time you didn’t revise a paper.

Was there a reason you didn’t revise it? What was it?

Tell me about a time you revised a paper.

 What grade did you get on it?

Why did you revise this paper?

When did you first learn to revise a paper?

Do you use that same method or have you learned more techniques that you use?

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of English teachers?

How do your high school English teachers tell you to revise a paper?

Do you follow that method of revision? Why or why not?

Do you ever revise writing you do outside of school?

If yes, give examples.

Is there anything I did not mention that you would like to talk about?

 

For College Students:

How are you?

How old are you?

What is your major?

Did you grow up in a small town or big city or in between?

They say an author’s secret penname is a combination of the name of your first pet and the street you brought up on. What would your secret penname be?

How do you view writing?

How do you define good writing?

Do you feel good writing just happens or do you have to work on it?

If good writing results when you work on it, what does that work entail?

How do you feel when you are first given a written assignment to do in a class, such as an essay?

Tell me about a time you had a writing assignment and what you did after you first wrote it all out.

Define revision in writing assignments.

How do you revise your papers?

How do you feel about revising your writing?

Do you only revise writing assignments if they will be graded?

What makes the difference in the need to revise?

Is there some writing assignments you do revise and others you do not?

Do you feel more obligated to revise your writing for an English class?

If yes, then why?

Tell me about a time you didn’t revise a paper.

Was there a reason you didn’t revise it? What was it?

Tell me about a time you revised a paper.

 What grade did you get on it?

Why did you revise this paper?

When did you first learn to revise a paper?

Do you use that same method or have you learned more techniques that you use?

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of English teachers?

How did your high school English teachers tell you to revise a paper?

Do you follow that method of revision? Why or why not?

How were you taught to revise papers in college?

Do you follow that method? Why or why not?

Do you revise more in college than you did in high school? Why or why not?

Do you ever revise writing you do outside of school?

If yes, give examples.

Is there anything I did not mention that you would like to talk about?

***IF I CHANGE MY STUDY TO ONLY COLLEGE STUDENTS***

I would ask them the following added questions:

Where did you go to high school?

Describe your high school.

How many people went there?

What was your favorite class and why?

Did you like English class? Why or why not?

Have your revision techniques changed since high school?