Edit: Originally posted on March 12, 2011.
I'm reposting this on behalf of my good friend
kat_of_rafters, who's doing her final sociolinguistics paper on fanfiction. (I am jealous. I was a sociology/anthropology major and I never thought of doing anything nearly so interesting.) Here's
her post:
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Hey all,
I'm doing a project on fanfiction in my Sociolinguistics class. In order to do this project I need to collect massive amounts of data from the experts on fanfiction: you guys. I've put a survey up on SurveyMonkey to collect data from as many members of the Supernatural fandom community as possible. It only takes a couple of minutes, and it would help me out a ton if you could find the time to drop me a few answers. All answers are confidential, especially as I ask for specific examples to back up my data. Please, if you can spare the time, do rant about fanfiction for me?
Click here to take survey If you would like to pass on the survey elsewhere (for which I'd be eternally grateful) the link is here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XHCSX7Y __________________________
There are only 9 questions, and even if you head over there to take a look at what, exactly, she's asking for, you're under no obligation to answer. Also, if you want to repost this, regardless of whether you decide to fill it out, that would be cool.
Thanks! :-)