Ellie Evans ENGL 3450

 I am currently working on implementing the revisions that were left on my literature review. I have a good idea of the work that I have to complete for my proposal. Recently I have been spending a majority of my time conducting my research (content analysis), but this will set me up nicely for the rest of the semester. I will meet with Dr. B on November 5th, so I will be able to look over my proposal with her then.

 My research topic has a knowledge gap. Below is the paragraph from my literature review where I touch on this topic: Though this literature goes in depth about how language is manipulated, and then weaponized to discriminate against women, there is a knowledge gap. There is a lot of qualitative data out there about language, but not very much quantitative data. One way to create quantitative data from language analysis is a content analysis. There needs to be a content analysis on gender's impact on language. Specifically, the language in sports.

 Below are 10 tentative sources for my research. Sources 6 and 7 are unrelated to my research topic but their methods (content analysis) is similar to what I will be doing so those sources are useful in that regard. 80% of the sources are from technical writing journals. Source 1: Emergent Feminist Technical Communication by Elizabeth A Flynn Source 2: Towards a Feminist Historiography of Technical Communication by John F Flynn Source 3: The critical eye, the gendered lens, and "situated" insights--feminist contributions to professional communication by Linda LaDuc and Amanda Goldrick-Jones Source 4: A feminist perspective on technical communicative action: exploring how alternative worldviews affect environmental remediation efforts by Susan Mallon Ross Source 5: Stigma in the Comments Section: A Feminist and Anti-Feminist Discussions Online by ADD AUTHOR Source 6: Artifactual dimensions of visual rhetoric: What a content analysis of 114 peer-reviewed articles reveals about ...

 Hello Everyone! I decided for my capstone class to analyze if gender impacts the language and word choice used when comparing female sports versus male sports. I am planning on using interviews, broadcasts, press releases, and social media posts as my primary sources for this research. I will be looking at frequency of various words or phrases. I am also considering how this research translates to the corporate world in the sense if gender impacts language used in business meetings, emails, and other forms of communication. I am excited for this class to help guide me through the research aspect because it can be daunting to begin a new research project.