Survey

Hey everyone,

Here is a draft for my survey, let me know what you think.

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Update

Finished and submitted my annotated bibliography on Thursday. As I looked through various sources I found that pretty much all authors have a different take on comedy writing. There were some that shared similar ideas while others contradicted each other. There is no easy way to distinguish "good or bad" authors in this research because humor is such a subjective subject (ha!). For the annotated bibliography I first looked at the nature of a website where I found the article, then I picked the ones that I found funny/useful for my research.

Traps in Questions

Here is a list of some bad interview questions which you should avoid. If you do have to use some of them: look serious.

The double question: Do you drink water or write essays?

The wrong choice question:

The "fuzzy word" question: Do you do it big over there?

The cover the world question: What do you think about food?

Jargon question: What do you think about nuclear proliferation mixed with Lysergic acid diethylamide?

The kitchen sink question: Please talk about your life: family, friends, hobbies and work.

Dream question: If you could have a superpower, what would it be?

Leading quetion: Do you not think that most of your coworkers are stupid?

Hearsey question: What does the school principal think about illegal drugs?

Fallot question: Do you speak English? Yes... No...
In your Enlish class was your grade below a C? Yes... No...
Would you take Enlish writting classes in the future? Yes... No...

Interview

I did an interview with Bob. He grew up Argentina. There he had a very close bond of friends which he knew since he was little. In school, he stayed with the same class throughout all of the years. His hobbies included playing soccer, doing BMX biking, and sitting on sidewalks watching people and drinking 2 liter coke bottles with friends. His family had two dogs: husky and German Shepard. He also mentioned having another dog, which he could not remember very well since it died when he was little.
Bob moved to the United States when he was a freshmen in high school. When I asked him about his first impression when he first moved here, I could see that he hated it at first. From his words, "I got into a lot of fights my first year in school," one can see that transitioning cultures was not an easy thing to do. Main thing that he did not like about the US, was that friendships seemed to be very superficial. He said that he studied "formal" British English in Argentina. When he moved to the US what helped him a lot was listening to people speak. Up to this point, he has no idea how he learned English.