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Oops, I forgot to tell you all that I changed my topic :P

While interviewing Donna, I saw that there already is a multicultural component on the textbook committee's criteria list. Therefore, I'm going to design surveys for teachers and students, take the results, and suggest books that both teachers and students might like. {Would I need to survey them for real for this project?}

I have a few different types of composition books and will be looking at their components. I will give short summaries of the books.

I know that it is late to be changing my topic already, but I have done this many times since I lost everything on my disk once and was able to pull it off.

Alex, Eric, and Dr. B, what do you think of this new idea?

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Since last time, I have been revising my literature review. It feels a little more like my research after I added my research questions and more metadiscourse.

I have a copy of Rereading America at home, which I'll grab when I go back home to California. I also have a copies of different textbooks (that Alex and I used for our presentation) and I think I'll look over their Table of Contents to compare and contrast. Or would it be better if I skimmed through the whole book? [I feel like my project is getting bigger and bigger!]

For the last essay of ENG 111, I'm having the students evaluate children's picture books that have a multicultural theme. I'm going to prepare a survey for them, asking about what they expect from a composition textbook, how theirs fit their expectations, and then asking implicitly if they would prefer textbooks with more multicultural topics. [Would I need to fill out an HSRB form for this?]

I'm also going to talk to Donna Nelson-Beene about the textbook selection process this week. I don't think I would ask her about multicultural topics because it's going to be my recommendation.