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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>By now, Rebecca, you may be wondering why you ever got involved
with this project. In case that’s true, I am writing to let you know there is
at least one person, and I’m sure many more, who are eagerly awaiting the results.
Keep up the good work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Rebecca Mlynarczyk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday September 02, 2009 10:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Deborah Mutnick<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration (BWe and
CBWmembership)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Kelly,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Deborah Mutnick and I met today to edit the BW survey, which
we plan to disseminate in mid-September. We have made minor adjustments in the
survey based on people's feedback, and we'll mention how we dealt with the
issue you raised in your e-mail below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks so much for your involvement with this project
and for helping us to fine tune the survey. Deborah and I will probably pay for
a month membership when we go public with it because we're hoping to get more
than 100 responses. We're also thinking about how to involve a graduate
assistant or recent Ph.D. in doing some analysis or further research based
on what we find.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hope you had a wonderful
summer. Congratulations on the recent publication of your book. I think I
saw it included in an NCTE catalog.<br>
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All the best,<br>
<br>
Rebecca & Deborah<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Kelly Ritter KARITTER <<a
href="mailto:KARITTER@uncg.edu">KARITTER@uncg.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi Rebecca:<br>
<br>
One thought about the survey--and I'm so sorry I didn't catch this
before. For question #8 ("if your institution doesn't have BW.
. . ) there are a couple of potential problems. First, the survey assumes
that one's institution *does* have BW, or else the previous questions are not
answerable (I tried to take the survey, for example, and then realized I could
not, b/c we do not offer BW), and so Q8 only applies if none of the above
questions do (see what I mean?). Second, survey monkey won't allow people
to "skip" questions--so you would also need a "not
applicable" option for this question, if you were to keep it in the
survey. <br>
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One way to do this is to make "not applicable" a response to the
other questions above as well--about one's BW program title, focus, etc.--so
that people like me could answer Q8 and the other demographic questions without
having to answer the other BW program questions. This would give you a
wider net of responses, though you would probably want to cross-code them to
see which came from people at institutions with BW programs, and which came
from people at institutions without BW programs. If you pay for a
membership on survey monkey, this higher-level cross-coding is possible in the
results reporting. Or, you can look at the results manually and code
yourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>We're trying to keep the survey as simple as possible, and
so this is how we've dealt with this issue: We changed the first question about
the respondent's institution so that it doesn't refer to basic writing (we had
to make this question and identifying the institution a required question--the
only one that's required) because otherwise we would have no way of knowing if
several people from the same institution filled out the survey, which would
really mess up the data.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Then we moved the question about "if your institution
doesn't offer BW" up from no. 8 to no. 3, so that people who really don't
have BW at their institution won't answer the questions that follow. Most of
these questions really are not applicable if they don't have BW at their
institution. But they could still volunteer for a followup interview (last
page) if there's an important story about why they don't have it or why they no
longer have it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Again, sorry to not mention this
earlier--I'm only sending to the whole Exec board in case my idea duplicates
what someone else might have also noticed.<br>
<br>
Kelly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Dr.
Kelly Ritter<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
Director of Composition<br>
University of North Carolina at Greensboro<br>
Greensboro NC 27402<br>
<a href="mailto:karitter@uncg.edu" target="_blank">karitter@uncg.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990099'>-----<a
href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a>
wrote: -----</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>To:
Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board <<a
href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a>><br>
From: Rebecca Mlynarczyk <<a href="mailto:rebecca.mlynarczyk@gmail.com"
target="_blank">rebecca.mlynarczyk@gmail.com</a>><br>
Sent by: <a href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br>
Date: 06/04/2009 05:41PM <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration (BWe and CBW
membership)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hello
everyone, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Using
the comments we received at the CBW workshop in March and with excellent
assistance from Kelly Ritter, we have streamlined the National Survey of
Basic Writing to make it more user friendly and quicker and easier to
complete. Again in response to feedback at the workshop,
we've decided to put it up on Survey Monkey; you should be able to preview
it by clicking on the link below. Please feel free to let us know if you
have questions, comments, or suggestions. Bear in mind that we're limited to 10
questions, but we do hope to be able to get more detailed information from respondents
who fill out the form at the end. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>This
is our first experience with Survey Monkey, so also let us know if you
encounter any technical problems. Once we're sure the Survey is in its final
form, we will decide on the most effective way to disseminate it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Rebecca
and Deborah <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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target="_blank">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xHqm3g7tYx7ildvliwJMMg_3d_3d
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