Group A - course archives

Bin Yang    	      biny@andrew.cmu.edu
William Ouyang 	      wouyang@andrew.cmu.edu
Victoria Docherty     vdochert@andrew.cmu.edu
P. Daphne Tsatsoulis  ptsatsous@andrew.cmu.edu

Section 1: Introduction                             15/20

  Research Question and Motivation

  Citations to literature on this topic

  Quick summary of main results from Section 4

  * good info
  * choppy writing
  * references not in good format

Section 2: Methods                                  15/20

  Target population, frame, sample design/methods, sample size

  Number of respondents contacted, number of respondents, other
  nonresponse/refusal information

  A few questions from your questionnaire (full questionnaire, contact
  letter(s), informed consent statement, etc, in appendices)

  Post-survey processing

  Other relevant information from the body of your progress report
  talk

Section 3: Results                                  15/20

  (may or may not be longer than Section 2!)

  Restate research question(s), show statistical analyses, discuss how
  they answer each research question (gory stat details in another
  appendix?)

  * lots of interesting information about the sample
  * no use of statistical analysis - no plans to do statistical
    analysis indicated!
  * choppy organization and writing.  Where is the story (justified by
    evidence from your survey)?


Section 4: Discussion                               15/20

  Overall discussion of research questions, how well survey answered
  them

  Any surprising, or expected, results

  Strengths and weaknesses of your survey; recommendations for future

  Take-home message(s)

List of References                                  5/10

Appendices                                          10/10

TOTAL                                               75/100

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* I was expecting most of Sections 1 and 2, and the list of
  references, would be complete

  - using material from your project proposal

  - using material from your progress report ppt

* I was expecting many holes in the rest of the paper, depending on
  work you haven't completed yet.

  - For each hole, I was looking for a paragraph detailing what you
    plan to do to fill the hole (put the paragraph in bold or italic,
    or box it or something so I know it is "plans" and not part of the
    actual paper text).

  - I considered your *plans* in sections 3, 4 and the appendices, not
    what you've *done* in these sections.  So not having many analyses
    yet wasn't a problem, as long as you gave me a well-thought-out
    set of plans for what you will do in the last couple weeks of the
    semester.

* I also considered organization & content (and plans, if you don't
    have content for some parts yet!)

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