In our first meeting of Writing 2E, we will make an attempt to learn a little something about each other. Your classmates comprise the audience you will address in your final quarter project and will serve as your project teammates—they deserve serious study! With this objective in mind (understanding your audience), please be ready to tell someone about yourself, and to learn something about them in turn. After your interview, you will have just 60 seconds to report your findings to the class.
Interviews are an excellent way to demonstrate research with open versus closed questions. Open interview questions have many possible answers (e.g., "What do you do for fun in your spare time?"), whereas closed questions offer only limited responses (e.g., "Are you employed?," "Will you graduate in June?," etc.). As you research your interviewee(s), consider how closed questions can be used to rapidly organize an approach and narrow searches. Also notice how open questions often present surprises and invite further inquiry. If you could ask just five questions to learn as much as possible about someone, what would you ask? Why these questions?
The UCSB Human Subjects Module will familiarize you with the proper and improper use of human subjects in experiments and studies and is required of all UCSB students and faculty conducting work of this nature. It consists of three parts, including a simple, multiple-choice test, and typically requires 45–60 minutes to complete; you may quit and save your work at any time, then return later. (This allows you to "chip away" on the module as you find the time.) NOTE: If you have already taken and passed the module, then you do not need to take it again; email a copy of your confirmed completion to Doug.
Our registration code for login this quarter is: RESD-GR-KA-001
When you log onto the module, it should look something like this: