Before I began to develop a survey questionnaire, I considered who my audience of survey takers would be. I decided that they would consist of people of all nationalities, college and high school students, males, females, college professors, high school teachers, people who were required to use computers as a part of their job, people who were unemployed, older people, and people who did not use the Internet at all. I had only six weeks to carry out this entire project. I decided to use 300 people who would volunteer to take surveys.
I divided 300 hundred people in groups of three ranging in ages from 17-21, 22-28, and ages 30 plus which made 100 people for each group. No names were needed for this survey because the survey and its results would not be published. The required time for participating in the survey would take ten minutes. I had two other individuals that assisted me with surveys outside of the GSU campus.
My purpose for choosing these particular questions are simple; they would allow me to observe and study how active each individual were in their using the Internet as well as their purpose for using the Internet. It also allowed me to study their methods for reading and writing and study habits if they were students. It allowed me to know if they were using their minds independent of the Internet and finally, it allowed me to observe if these same individuals felt as if the Internet had changed the way they read and write effectively. Comments and explanations will be use in the results of this survey as they are as important as the yes ans no answers. They serve as the voices of the people and are as pertinent to the results from the entire surveys. Below as follows are the survey questions that I developed for this project:
Survey Questions
1. Age__ Sex: Males __ Females__ Student: Yes__ No__
2. Are you employed? Yes__ No__
3. Do you use Internet to summarize a story that you have not read? Y_ N_ Explain in 2-3 sentences.
4. Do you read in-depth on the Internet or do you skip and skim to find what catches your eye?
5. When you use the Internet, are you looking for quick fixed answers? Y_ N_ or are you looking to learn more by spending time reading? Y__ N__
6. Do you twitter? Y_ N_ or Do you text? Y_ N_
7. What is your purpose for using the Internet? Work__ School__ Leisure___ Shopping___ Other__
8. Do you feel you are creative enough to write without getting information from the Internet? Y__N__
9. When was the last time you read a book, novel? 1 to 3 mos __, 3 to 6 mos__, last week__?
10. Did you finish and how long did it take you to finish it? More than a week or month? Less than a week or a month? Why?______________ explain in less than 2-3 sentences.
11. Are you relaxed while reading? Y__ N__. After forty minutes are you still relaxed or do you fidget? Y__ N__ Explain in 2-3 sentences__________.
12. Do you have access to the Internet? Y__ N__
13. how much in terms of of the amount of hours within a day would you estimate you spend on the Internet? 2to 4 hrs.__, 4 to 8 hrs.__, 8 to 12hrs.__, 12 or more hrs.__
14. When using Google search engines, do you click on the first thing you see or do you search a few more sites to skim through? Y__N__ Explain in 2 to 3 sentences__________.
15. Do you enjoy Reading? Y__ N__ or Writing? Y__ N__
16. Overall, do you think or feel that the Internet has altered the way in which you normally read and write?
Note: After the surveys were taken, I will gather my results from the surveys and graph them according to each age in groups of three.
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