Smoking on Campus

[L.C.]

I'm doing research on the topic of "Smoking on Campus" as part of my ENG-150 Technical Writing course's curriculum. This is a group project, and I have been assigned to do the interviewing part of the project. I plan on asking students, smoking students, and campus stuff questions; this makes 3 different sets of questions.

 

If you had the opportunity to interview (a) a non-smoking student, ( a smoking student, and © a staff member of the campus/college/university, what questions might you ask?

 

So far this is what I have:

 

(a) a non-smoking student

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/ENG150_Questions_Students.pdf

 

( a smoking student

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/ENG150_Questions_Smoker.pdf

 

© a staff member of the campus/college/university

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/ENG150_Questions_OTCStaff.pdf

 

I am seeking advice, suggestions, more questions, etcetera. The college I go to is supposedly a smoke-free campus (as it has such signposts all over the campus).

Edited April 10, 2010 by L.C.

[BDwinsAlt]

I don't know about your school, but around here it's more of who smokes weed at school or waits until they get home...

[★ Purge]

I don't know about your school, but I had a similar project where I simply bs'd all the interview questions and answers.

 

Anyway, I think your questions are solid at first glance if you want them tailored to specific categories as you said you plan on doing. But if you want to do some comparisons for certain questions to show, for example, a trend, then you can ask them the same questions based on random samples of interviewees from each category.

 

You could also look up some simple research techniques for collecting valid survey data. Try not to become like the Princeton Review.

[★ Lynx]

Yeah, I just bullshit stats for school stuff.