Writing, writing....

Hello folks.

With little to read and so much to write, I will briefly give a run down of the status of my paper.

I have 15 pages of single spaced lunacy. Between the relentless typos and grammatically weak structures, there might be glimmers of good analysis and research! Tonight I will be panning for this gold....

The bibliography is fattening up nicely, though I doubt it will consistent of a multitude of sources.

I still haven't finished one transcription, but I will do this after I have a fairly decent document for tomorrow. Within the next 3 or 4 days, I hope to make final changes, adding whatever new ideas I gain from such otherwise mercifully brainless work. :)

Peace and good luck!

Finally!

I have FINALLY finished transcirbing all three of my interviews (though I am very disappointed in my last two because they were so short, and I started off with such a great first itnerview that was long and covered everything I needed) and I have an outline... sorta... which leads me to my question... which final paper to choose to write... I'm really interested in what everyone said in their interviews, but my last two didn't seem interested in talking about what I wanted to talk about at all so I don't have as much as I'd like about what I initially wanted to write about... Any suggestions? I'm thinking about the second paper option but I'm not sure....

Interviews finally

So, after two months of trying to coordinated with my two younger siblings and failing miserably to get time for an interview I finally managed to sit down with them. The first thing I noticed is that 11 year-old boys really like voice recorders. 14 year-old girls do not like hearing their own voice it turns out and after hearing herself during a sound test, she made me promise to never let anyone hear it.

Interviewing children posed a whole new set of challenges for interviewing. Especially with my brother, attention span was a serious issue. He could sit still for more than 30 seconds, so I ended up grabbing a football and throwing it back and forth to him the whole time. My sister was able to handle about 15 minutes, but at that point it was obvious that she wanted to be doing something else and her short efficient answers will made the last few questions of that interview rather pointless. Even if the interview aren't as helpful as I would have liked as far as my research goes, I definitely think I learned a lot of things about interviewing children that will come in handy when I continue my research for capstone.