Assignment 1
What are some of the special communication issues facing single parents? How can these issues be handled most constructively? Use the text plus 2 other sources to support your response. Please create this assignment in a word document. The length requirement for this assignment is 500-750 words.
Assignment 2
Respond to the following by either: offering advice or strategy, posing a question, providing an alternative point-of-view, acknowledging similar experiences, sharing a resource. Must be at least 100 words.
"When it comes down to research, there are a lot of different factors that tend to be overlooked or underestimated depending on your particular overall goal for your research or target audience. Particular one topic that I read about on the survey research website that we were required to read through for this week's forum, is the topic of incentive based research and all that in entails such as creating more of a willingness to participate as well as the percentage that the dollar amount of the incentive gift affected the overall percentage rate. While the idea of incentive based research would seem like a no brainer to most as well as the thought of spending more on incentive to create more return on the overall research topic, I still found it interesting about the percentage rates that it did have an effect on. One particular part of this incentive based research topic that our text did not particularly cover is the point of which time the incentive gift was offered and how it raised or reduced the overall effect of the incentive gift. On this Survey Research site, it states that those that offered the gave the participant the incentive beforehand was more likely to have a higher rate of return while those that offered the incentive after the completion of the survey held a lower rate of return. I personally believe that giving the incentive beforehand can create somewhat of a guilt effect on the participate because you give the nice things such as an ink pen."
Assignment 2 part 2:
Respond to the following by either: offering advice or strategy, posing a question, providing an alternative point-of-view, acknowledging similar experiences, sharing a resource. Must be at least 100 words
"After looking at the survey tutorial, I thought they all were pretty interesting. However, I chose the Order of the Question, because it made me think about how questions are normally presented in a survey. Do it really matter how the questions are asked? Would my answers be different depending on the order of the questions? I can see how the order of the questions could make sense and keep the survey on track. Mainly because grouping the subjects together would keep you focused and not have you jumping around. I feel like if the questions are not grouped together and organized then I may not understand what the survey is trying to figure out or what the question is really geared towards. Rather you have similar question together you can understand what the survey is trying to get to"