Phase 2 of the Road to Thesis: The Method Section

To start off this method section, I plan to use the student leader presentation training that is from Texas Lutheran University, the online training that is required of first year students, and surveys from groups of those students giving their feedback on the training. Overall, this will be a rhetorical analysis with a hint of ethnography when I do the surveys. The student leader presentation allowed me to see the types of information that was involved and exactly how much interaction was done off the screen. There are lots of key components to the pieces of information that are given during the presentation as well that will be analyzed later on.

With the online training course, I plan to go in and actually see what information is being portrayed through this website and see the different way that they go about doing things, whether it be videos or just pieces of information here and there. I think that this information will be really important for me because online courses are what the majority of schools are doing because it’s easier when there are thousands of students in attendance of the university. My hope is that I will be able to make conclusions on what is in the online course and if there are certain things that stick out.

The last pieces of data that I plan on collecting so far are the surveys from the students about their experience with the training sessions. I will be sending out the same survey to first year students and to student leaders on the different trainings that they did. With this survey I hope to gain a better insight on students’ thoughts on the Title IX trainings that we put them through at Texas Lutheran University. Because even though I have my own ideas on what I think is working and what isn’t, the surveys may tell me something and may even say something significant if I think one thing, but the survey says another. I think it will also be beneficial to use the survey method because it will allow me to show students’ responses to the trainings that I will be analyzing in my data analysis section.