Minutes- 26th November

Venue and time: Computer Cluster Room 2 in the Arts building, from 3-4pm                                                                                 

All group members were present for this meeting.

 

In today’s meeting we edited our survey according to the feedback we received from Alison. We added an introduction so that our participants will know who we are, what we are researching and also so that they can be assured that their personal details will not be used. We also added questions asking for age, gender and ethnicity, as this will allow us to ensure we have gathered a wide range of data and whether participants’ age, gender or ethnicity effects their reaction and interpretation of the two war declarations. We are planning to publish our questionnaire by the next meeting.

 

We also discussed the power point presentation which we are going to create. Using the Wiki we have summarised the key elements which we need to include in our presentation which are:

·         Research topic

·         Research questions

·         Methods of collecting and analysing data

·         Findings and results

·         Our five individual slides based on the element each of us has chosen to research to do with the war declarations, these include elements such as the use of pronouns, structure and literary devices within the texts.

·         Brief evaluation- what we would do differently if we did this again and  the problems we faced and what we think we did well

·         Credits- what each member of the group contributed

 

We will print a copy of both speeches and allow people to read them before viewing our presentation, so that they can see the features we have analysed within the texts themselves.

 

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday the time and venue are yet to be decided.