Re: Voluntary Study for ENG 700: Research Methods in English at Missouri State University

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

Katherine Wertz posted:
> I am looking for volunteers to answer a series of survey questions concerning technical communication e-collaboration and issues that arise
> out of both domestic and international e-collaboration.

Here's an example of a collaboration issue:

On 2011-10-30, at 5:06 AM, "Michael Herman  (Parallelspace)"
<mwherman -at- parallelspace -dot- net> wrote:

> This is the way SurveyMonkey works in "free" mode.  I don't know what the
> specific policies are for this mailing list but as a former graduate student
> myself, I think we need to cut this PHD student some lack.  PHD research related to our field is important.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Peter Neilson
> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:00 AM
>
> The survey leads to to a website provided by surveymonkey.com, and
> completion of the survey leads to a set of advertisements. Is this with the
> proper use of techwr-l, or does it constitute unpaid advertising? Are there established methods for doing surveys that avoid the advertising?
>

Privacy requirements aside, other survey methods could be to use forms
in Google Spreadsheets, or a live editing space like Doodle, or a
wiki.

-tony
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