Please have these completed and returned to me by Monday 4pm, and I shall return them with feedback that evening so that you can get on with your interviewing. There is no class next week.
Group name:
Group members:
Heather Grant, Sharon Obisesan, Xiao Chen, Geraldine Gowdie
(1)General: How friendships formed and/or maintained at university?
What is/are your research question(s) ?
How friendships are formed and maintained within students before and during university.
Why have you decided to focus on this aspect?
Instead of using the general question on friendships with regards to just university, we decided to broaden the question to accommodate the period of time pre-university therefore giving us a broader spectrum of question which can be asked.
(2) Methodology: List all your questions here, and consider the purpose of the question, as well as what possible questions could merge from your initial question.
Question
Consider: What is the purpose of this question; how will it help you to answer your research question? What possible questions may come from this question?
How does university life affect friendships you already have established prior to university?
(Are friendships prior to university now strained?) (Do you feel you interact with them as much?)
The purpose of this question is to get the person being interviewed settled.
Do you feel the significance of the friendships formed in the first term in university are as important now?
(Are you still close to people met in first term?) (Can you describe to me your friendships you made before university?)
This question is to help people think about firstly coming to university in year one and any attachments formed and the importance of them now.
Do you think that new friendships at university have changed who you are?
(Effected your person in anyway?) (Have these friendships had a positive or negative effect?)(Is there anything else what has