1)During Thursday's class, we saw how the language used in the English survey can be confusing. In this case, the survey included vocabulary known to its creators (English professors), yet, unknown to the surveyors (students). Because of the vocabulary within the survey, we could see the presence of a social language (i.e. English Professor language). For example, Kean students going into the English program may not understand the terminology "discourse analysis" or "textual analysis"; however, Kean's English professors know these terms.
2) Surveys offer researchers a quick and easy way to gather information. This information can be used to discuss numbers along with results of a survey. For example, a researcher could state that out of ... surveys, ... people ... while eating. These results would give hard information without the why? component.
3) After Thursday's class, I learned that surveys can be extremely hard to create for a few reasons. 1) Surveys have to be concise to keep the surveyor's attention. 2) The language used in the survey has to be written so that the audience could understand. 3)The person doing the survey needs to know its purpose. If the researcher fails to address the previous reasons, the results of the survey may be unreliable. Hence, participants may gun-deck the information on the survey. On the other hand, if the researcher tries to adjust the survey (i.e. making it concise) for his or her participants, then the survey may not address all of the researcher's questions.
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