“Focusing on a few participants...encourages an in-depth understanding not possible with a larger sample,” according to Rossman & Rallis (2003, p.175). My action research project, Using a School Newspaper to Affect Young Writers, consists of a total of five participants which will allow me to gain an in-depth understanding of my participants’ writing habits and how much and in what way the project, newspaper, has influenced/ affected each participant. As suggested by Kear, Coffman, McKenna, & Ambrosio (2000), I administered the survey as a group, each participant completed an individual survey as I read through each question twice and gave them time to respond to each question. Pending upon the results of the survey administered to my research participants, I will use the findings from the survey to help guide “instruction” during the newspaper article writing and development process. I expect that the results will help provide me with a better idea of what my participants want to write about, the kinds of writing that they would like to do, what is meaningful to them, the audience that they would like to target, etc.
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