Two Research Questions Business Rhetoric 1030

Two Research Questions

Business Rhetoric 1030

1^st Idea

1.         Question:

a.          What are the best methods of time management when studying or doing work, that you have picked up while in college? Where are the major distractions that take you away from your work?

2.         Participants:

a.          I will reach out to the students around me that are attending the university of Iowa as well as other colleges that my friends from back home go to.

b.         By using students that are in college I will be able to find a diverse response to the question I will be asking.

3.         Conducting research:

a.          WHERE: I will conduct my research through an online resource here in Iowa City, IA.

b.         HOW: I will use an online resource called survey monkey in which I will be able to ask a series of questions to students who will be able to respond in anonymous way. There will be no bias from me.

4.         Analyzing:

a.          I will look at the data and group it according to major, location of studying, class load, GPA and many other questions. With this data I will be able to make conclusions on how people learn in certain environments. Ideally enough people will respond so I can see a trend in the data that comes up.

5.         Presentation of Data:

a.          I plan on presenting the data in clear graphs, charts and data tables. The graphs should show trends in the results that I collected.

2^nd Idea

1.         Question:

a.          Where do students spend their money during the week and on the weekends? Is the money spent more on school or social reasons? What purchases do students regret?

2.         Participants:

a.          Students at the University of Iowa as well as students from a variety of schools that I know from high school.

b.         Through this diverse pool of people, I will be able to get a good amount of responses from different environments. This will broaden the results and make the data more interesting  

3.         Conducting research:

a.          WHERE: I will conduct my research in Iowa City, IA.

b.         HOW: I will use an online resource called Survey Monkey to attain responses from students across campus. I will utilize social media by posting links for my survey on my profile for everyone to see. This will allow anyone around campus to respond to my questions.

4.         Analyzing:

a.          I will use the results from the survey and group the data into groups such as social spending, academic spending food and many more. I will also take into consideration the time of day and week as that may have an effect on what people are buying and how much they are spending.

5.         Presentation of Data:

a.          I will use clearly presented graphs, tables and charts to show off my findings in an understandable way. I will also use these visuals in my analysis as it will help make my points clearer to the reader.