Blog 15

Formulate a Research Plan:

1) Statement of Purpose (What you hope to show/Discover)?

I want to show the connection between novels and screenplays, and how people feel about the connections between the two.  I want to show the difference from seeing the words on paper and seeing how the words play out when on screen. I hope to discover which people prefer: films? novels?  I also hope to discover whether seeing the words on paper is better or worse than seeing how the words play out on screen.  

2) Detailed Statement of your Research Question:

My main focus is to figure out people's reactions to when watching a film that has been adapted from a novel, to see if they either like or didn't like what the adapter has done with the story line.  Also to see if those people prefer the novel or film of that particular story.  But there are also other focuses I want for this and that is to see if people see a film just because they have read the novel or if they read the novel just because there is a movie coming out.

3) List of Information you need to Gather:

• I need to gather information through interviews that I will be asking my main subject.
• I will also use my reference article (book) written by Linda Hutcheon.

4) A Preliminary list of sources:

1. Reference article (book)
2. Individuals who are being interviewed.

Plan for Getting my Information:

Who/What you will be Studying: I will be studying my mom, friend and/or my cousin.  I will study the way they react to when asked about reading a novel and the film that was adapted.  

Where you will collect Information: Interview questions will be done either at my home or the home of the participants, whichever is better for my participant.  If I do one of my friends, I may have to do it over skype conversation.

How many subjects you will study: I will be studying three subjects including myself, with a possible fourth subject. 

What methods you will use to use conduct your study? I will do interviews and discourse analysis for the explanation of writing in a discourse community. 

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I am planning on interviewing a couple of people who have had the opportunity of both reading a novel and seeing the adatpted film of that movie.  Some questions that I may ask them would be:

1) How are you doing today?
2) Have you read a novel and see the film that was adapted from the novel?
3) Did you like the novel or the film better?
4) Can you explain to me why one was better than the other?
5) If you could have made any changes to the film, would you? and what would those changes be?
6) Have you ever read a novel, only because there was an adapted film of that novel coming out?
7) If you were to ever be a writer, would you want to write the actual novel or the adapted screenplay of that novel?
8) Can you tell me a story of a time where you did see a film of a novel you read? Like for example - what were thoughts throughout the film?  Did you keep comparing it to the novel?

I am still working on coming up with other questions for those participants.

If I am able to interview an author/adaptor, the following questions would be what I ask to them:

1) How are you doing today?
2) How long have you been interested in writing?
3) What made you want to start writing?
4) Did you go to college to expand your writing skills? If so, which school did you go to?
5) What do you like writing more? Novels or screenplays? ( I will have a follow-up question to whatever his/her answer is)
6) Do you rather be the adaptor to your work or have another scriptwriter adapt your work?
7) How do you come up with what you want to put from your novel into the film?
8) Do you ever make changes from your novel to make the adapted film get more attention?
9) Do you think because you have adapted films to your novel, your novels get more attention?
10) What do you work on first? The novel or screenplay?
11) Can you tell me a story of a time when you were writing a novel and/or screenplay?

I'm still working on coming up with stronger/concrete questions to ask.

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The transcript that I have chosen to use is the Chat Room transcript.

Language Moves:

• S is the interviewer
• A is the interviewee 
• S asks questions that A is able to answer questions with long answers.
• Both S and A seem to be comfortable with each other.
• A brings up stories from his/her past to answer S's questions.
• It seems that as the interview went on, S changed his/her questions because his/her planned questions were no longer necessary as A continued answering the questions with interesting stories.

Discourse:

• It seems that S and A are both in the discourse of social media. 

Research Question:

• Did it help that A was comfortable with S as he/she answered his/her questions?

Evidence:

• Normally when interviewers ask someone of a personal experience, it usually makes the interviewee uncomfortable to answer that question but it seems S made the conversation comfortable enough that A was comfortable to answer his/her questions.
• S, the interviewer, laughed multiple times.
• Both S and A seem to understand computer terms so they are able to continue the conversation.

Blog 12

Gaming Literacy

Interesting Language Features:

• Ch seems to be in charge (dominating) the conversation.
• B doesn't seem comfortable answering some of the questions being asked of gaming.
• Conversation seems to be more casual then of an interview. 
• B has many things to say about the topic of software but not too much on the comparison of literacy and gaming. 

What Discourses do Ch and B belong to?

• School Discourse 
• Teacher Discourse
• Education Discourse
• Literacy Discourse
• Gaming Discourse

Research Questions:

• If the interviewer was a different person, would the interview have gone the way it has?
• Are literacy and gaming similar? How so?

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Hello, my name is Caitlin Goerlich and I am doing a research study for my Research in Language and Literature class. My main focus for this study is to see how people react to adaptation between books to films, to see how the words change from going from paper to on screen.  I am interested doing this project because I am interested of becoming a novelist and a screenwriter and it would be interesting to see how it is from different point of views of adaptation.  I do have a faculty advisor who is also my professor, Dr. Sally Chandler, who will be overlooking my study.  One participant of this study will be a few people who have both read a novel and saw the adapted film of that novel.  Another participant of this study is a professional novelist who either is also the adaptor of his/her novel or has other people adapting their novels into film, and see from their point of view of how they go from writing novels to screenplays.

I will be conducting information from the participants from doing interviews and with by permission of the participants, I will record the interviews.  The interviews will be planned to take about 40 minutes, if allowed by participants, and I may have follow-up questions.  The participants will be anonymous throughout my study and they can withdraw from taking part of the study at any time without any penalty or consequences.  In this study, there are no benefits and no financial obligations for the participations themselves.  There will also be no compensation for participation.  Once again, the participants will be remain anonymous throughout my study and the only people who will see/read my study will be my professor who is also my faculty advisor and also my classmates.  After my study, there might be a chance where I will be planning on publishing this study.

Once again, with permission from the participants, I would like to record any interviews that I will be doing throughout my study.  My contact information are on the consent forms where the participants may contact me with further questions and also on the consent forms are also are contact information for my advisor, Dr. Chandler and Dr. Cronin of the English Department if you have any further questions or complaints that have to do with the study.

I will like to thank the participations for participating in study and if they have any further questions, they can contact me with my contact information on the consent forms.  Thank you again for your time and participation.

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Data 4.1

Global comments:

• Comments are at the beginning of the paper.
• Overview of what the student needs to work on.
• There is a positive note at the beginning.
• The comments are numbered.
• It is not as positive.
• Tells student to "see comments"

Bubble comments:

• Organized
• Positive feedback
• The teacher makes suggestions.
• The comments are more direct than the global comments

Data 4.2

Global comments:

• Towards the end of the paper.
• In paragraph form.
• Not in number form like the first data set.
• Offers help if student needs more revisions to be looked over.
• Gives suggestions to student to choose a theorist to help their argument.

Bubble comments:

• Positive suggestions.
• Makes suggestions on how to make sections stronger.
• The comments are tied to the text.

Data 4.3

Global comments:

• The comments are a the beginning.
• Positive.
• Numbered.
• Tells the students to "review criteria" which is posted right below the numbered comments.

Bubble comments:

• Positive feedback and suggestions
• Asks questions so the student can answer those questions in the text to make the paper stronger.
• The last bubble comment suggests to see criteria again.

Data 4.4

Global comments:

• Comments are at the end of the paper, after the Work Cited page.
• Positive feedback.
• Makes suggestions to the students to be stronger on their focus of the paper.

Bubble comments:

• Makes suggestions on how to make sections stronger.
• Makes suggestions on how to organize the paper better.
• Comments are tied to the text.
• Seems there are more bubble comments in this paper than the other three.

To me, I have always been better when my teachers have made comments at the end of the paper, also comments throughout the paper focusing more specifically on points throughout the paper.  Each Data Sets, bubble comments go throughout the paper but only two sets of global comments are at the beginning of the paper and the other two are at the end of the papers. So according to this, I would make my research question - When it comes to global comments, are they more effective in the beginning of the paper or at the end of paper?  Also another research question that would work - Do bubble comments make concrete suggestions that the student will take those suggestions to make changes? 

There are also patterns that I have noticed within the Data sets and those are that the global comments are either numbered or in paragraph form.  Also, like I have said above, the global comments are either at the beginning of the paper or at the end.  For both global comments and bubble comments, there are positive feedback, makes suggestions on how to make paper stronger, and all comments are tied to the texts. 

Blog 9

1. Identify your focus.  This is a general statement of what you are interested in.

My focus is on how novels are adapted to on the screen, finding out how the words change when they are no longer just on paper, and also to see people's reactions to those changes.

 2. Identify your research question:  What in particular do you want to find out?  State your question in as specific terms as you can: the age/identity of your subjects, the location of your study, the particular activities/features you will focus on. 

I am not exactly sure yet what my research question would be but I would like to find out how authors feel when other writers adapt their novels to scripts or how a writer can distinguish on what to leave in or to leave out when writing the script.  If the author is both a novelist and scriptwriter like Nicholas Sparks for an example, do they write the novel first or the script to the movie first? and also how they would distinguish the changes they make for their work to work better on screen.  I would like to interview an author who fits in either of these criteria and also to interview some people who have read books who have adapted into movies.

Your research question is really a group of related questions, stated in specific terms, where you narrow in on what in particular you want to learn about in your study.

 3. Who has studied this question and what do they say.  For this prompt - mention any article that you have read where researchers have explored answers to your question.  If you can't find any articles - tell me something about what you searched for and what you found (even if it wasn't right).

I have not researched as of yet on my own but with the meeting I had with you, we researched this article: She wrote a book called "A Theory of Adaptation" by Linda Hutcheon. I have no yet read the book or have gotten the book.

 4.What do I need to find out to answer this question?  This prompt is to help you clarify and deepen your research question.

First, I need to do research on the differences between a novel and a script, also the different types of each. Then once, I find out the back story of each, I need to figure out who would be the perfect subjects to talk with and see how they feel about when novels are adapted into films. Does it work? Is there a point that it might work for one novel but not another?

 5.  What do I need to do to gather information that will answer my question?
 This prompt is to help you think about how to design your study.  Who will you work with?  Where?  what will you do together?

I am thinking about interviewing a few people who have read The Last Song or any of the Nicholas Sparks' novels that have adapted into movies.  I'm also thinking about doing surveys to see how people feel about novels adapting into movies, in general.  If possible, I thought I could try to get in touch with Nicholas Sparks and do an interview with him.

List of what I may need to do before I start:
Do some more research of other papers that have been done on the topic.
I will also need to figure out a concrete research question.

List of what I might need from my professor:
You said that you have bought the book I mentioned above, I was wondering if I could borrow it, which you have mentioned about loaning it to me. :) UPDATE: Thank you for loaning me the book last class.