Sample Questions

Here are the questions the emerged from both classes.  The starred questions we all need to ask to get the basic information.  The rest are optional, with our agreement to ask no more than 10.  If you are drafting your paper together, it will be helpful if you all ask the same questions of your participants.  A copy of this is in the faculty folder if you want to copy and paste.

Directions:  Please reply to these questions on the screen.  I would appreciate your returning it by the end of this week because we have to work with the information next week.

Demographic Questions:

1. *When did you complete Composition II?

2. *Where did you take it?

3. How would you characterize your success in the course?  (Great, good, OK, not so good) Why?

4. Was this a traditional class or was there something special about it (for example, computer classroom, collaborative work, service learning, etc.)?

5. About how many major papers did you write in the class?

6. What is your major, subject area, or career interest right now?

7. What writing-related classes have you taken since Composition II?

8. How much writing do you do now?  (A lot, not much, almost none)

9. What skills did your Comp. II teacher emphasize throughout the course?

  Substantive Questions:

1.  *Which Composition II assignment or skill has become most helpful to you now that you are writing for other purposes?  What in Composition II has been least helpful to you in your post-Comp. II writing?

2. *Given what you know now, what would you have added to Comp. II that would help you as you write now?

3.  *Our book say that this course serves as a bridge to writing in other courses.  To what extent is that true in your experience?

4. How did Comp. II improve you as a writer?

5.  What stands out to you about Comp. II?

   

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