Research questions and readings

1.     What are college students stress levels? How does this affect grades?

2.     How many credit hours are they taking? How many other activities/groups are they in? How much do they work?

For these questions I would have college student here at the University of Iowa take a survey containing containing questions that would help find an answer to the above questions.  I would ask them where they see their grades.  I would also ask them how many credit hours they are taking, and what their stress level is.  This will allow me to find out if stress goes up when they take more classes.  I also want to ask how many hours they spend a week on other activities/work.   I would then be able to make a correlation between the amount of stress felt, with grades and the amount of time they have committed to school/other activities.  Then I would recommend the best balance between number of credits and other activities.

Similarities and differences in the readings:

To start, both the article talks about bagels.  But beyond that both articles analyze the reactions of the customers to the delivery of the product.  Both displayed research to support the points they were trying to make.  But the big difference lies in the organization.  In the first reading, the layout is in paragraph form with no headings.  This is more of a research paper format that we are used to writing.  The second reading had headings and was split up into sections.  This format is closely related to the IMRaD format we will use for our upcoming assignment.  The second one also used graphs and tables and referenced them in the writing often.  The first reading was very general and just discussed what was taken out of the experiment, while the second reading went into great details about the specific data that was found.