PhD survey finally ready

It took me a long time to focus on this survey, but now it's finally
ready to be distributed out. I would deeply appreciate if you could
spare a few minutes to answer the questionnaire. Your answers are
valuable to my study and they will be treated confidentially. If you
have any questions, please do not hesitate to post your message to
taiwanese_efl_teachers@yahoogroups.com or send me an email at
aidenyeh@yahoo.com

If you know of any Taiwanese teacher/s who might be interested in
participating in this survey, please direct them to our yahoogroups
at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taiwanese_efl_teachers/

Thanks again and I look forward to reading your response.

Cheers,

Aiden Yeh

Aiden Yeh
PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham
http://dcyeh.com

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Fwd: Amanda's blog url address

Amanda,

 

I believe this topic falls under Psychology. You can work on this topic but you need to focus on a specific population, for example, Taiwanese college students.

You will also have to look at pessimism. How many people [your popoulation] are pessimistic and how many are optimistic? What does the statistic mean?

Will you have plenty of resources [books and articles] aside from those found on the Internet?

Aiden Yeh

a8920091@ms76.hinet.net wrote:

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:20:10 +0800 (CST)
From: a8920091@ms76.hinet.net
To: aidenyeh@yahoo.com
CC:
Subject: Amanda's blog url address

Dear Ms. Yeh,

I just check the updated website for our bloggers.

I did'nt know what's wrong with my blog. I can log in and post mail, how come it's a wrong url.

Maybe it is http://www.amandawu.blogspot.com ,because I tried it many times and I can see

 myself get on line.

Please check again and help me find out what went wrong with my procedure.

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Amanda Wu

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Aiden Yeh
PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham
http://dcyeh.com

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Searching for a good research topic

I am sending you a message that my colleague, Prof. Dafne Gonzalez [Venezuela] sent to her MA research students. Perhaps this could help you too. You can post your comments on your blogs.

aiden

Dafne wrote

I am copying a message from an e-list, where a professor from the Open University (UK) gives advice about what topic should a person choose for research, and I thought it might be of your interest:

Hi, A couple of points that I tell our students here that might be helpful: 1) consider what you have availaable in terms of time and resources; you don't want to try to do something that isn't possible however good an idea' it is; 2) think about your own experiences and working conditions, are there any issues, problems, opportunites, you could explore there? - projects that grow out of an area you already have 'foundations' in are often easier to write than ones where you are approaching something 100% new. Good luck Paul Knight The Open Universit, UK

What do you think?

Dafne

Aiden Yeh
PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham
http://dcyeh.com

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amanda's research topic proposal

Amanda,

 

With regards to your topic, 'Depression of Working class in taiwan', I really don't know exactly what you want to find out.

 

Perhaps it would be better if you write some research questions. What do you want to learn more about this topic? What are the things that you want to find out?

 

Post your answers to your blogs.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Aiden

a8920091@ms76.hinet.net wrote:

Dear Ms Yeh,

Thank you for the E-mails telling us how to to our assignment and practices on line.

I sorry that I still don't know how to do it, maybe I didn't spent enough time on that, or maybe I am slow, anyway I got confused.

Therefore, can I tell you my research topic here? And I'll try again to create my own blog later on.  

I would like to do the research about the depression of working class in Taiwan, but I don't know how to name the topic, to make it more professional.

Thank you very much for your help, I will ask you or other classmates more about the blog in the calss.

Sincerely yours

Amanda Wu

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http://dcyeh.com

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Welcome to Aiden Yeh's Research Writing Course

Hello and welcome to Research Writing course.

Class website: http://www.geocities.com/wentzao2004/writing

I'll be updating and synchronizing the contents of our class website with our blog. I'll also be putting quick links here so it'll be easier to navigate and browse other pages.

Students' Blogs Index, click here.

Syllabus, click here.

I'll also be adding photos to add that personal touch. You can also do the same on your respective blogs.

Aiden Yeh