All,
This discussion has been interesting and insightful. I have been trying to stay out of the way to hopefully keep both you and I from being influenced as far as the study goes, and I hope you understand.
I want to apologize for those of you who have had issues accessing the survey. It seems that these problems have centered around Great Britain/England. If you do want to participate still, I can email the survey questions to you... Otherwise, I appreciate your interest, and will use one of the more accessible survey-engines next time.
If any of you have volunteered for the followup interview and have not received it, please email me at ewebb002(at)odu(dot)edu. I have sent one round of emails out, and will be sending another this afternoon for those who have taken the survey recently. If you still haven't received an email by 7pm tonight, please check your spam folder/filter.
For those of you who volunteered to submit a writing sample(s), thank you. Unfortunately, because of time constraints, I'll be removing that portion from the current study. However, I am still interested in continuing this past the deadline, so I may be contacting you next week in regards to this. If I do try to publish this, I want to include these writing samples as part of the study.
At any rate, this is just to let everyone know that if you haven't taken the survey yet, and still want to, that I'll be closing the survey tonight, December 4th, at midnight EST. I've gotten plenty of responses for this portion of the study, so don't feel guilty if you haven't had time.
Thanks again,
Eric Heald-Webb
ewebb002 (at) odu (dot) edu