[HPFGU-OTChatter] OT: JKRowling Case Study

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evehomay <evehomay at sinagirl.com> wrote: I am a postgraduate student in cultural studies from England. I am 
doing my dissertation on the situation about authors writing under 
pseudonym, especially why so many of them are male pseudonym, which I 
remembered that JK Rowling once said about the publisher didn't want 
her to use Joanne Rowling as the author name.

Would you be so kind to fill in the questionnaire to help me gather 
information on doing this dissertation? You could download the 
questionnaire from 
http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/evehomay/questionnaire.doc and send it 
back to me on evehomay at calbee.wanadoo.co.uk

Thank you very much for your time.

Yours Sincerely,
Eve Ho.







I am doing a dissertation on women writers, in relation to social stereotypes imposed on women. If you would be so kind to fill in this questionnaire, it would be of great help. Once you have filled it in, please email it back to me (evehomay at calbee.wanadoo.co.uk). Thank you.

Name: Karan Graham

These information is needed in case further questions are needed to be asked later, but would be confidential to researchers only.
  
Email address: Moonmyyst13 at yahoo.com
    
Age: 43

Gender: female
 
1. Are you a frequent reader? yes
  
2. Which categories or genres are you more interested in? Fantasy, some sci-fi, dog
  
3. Among the writers of your interested categories or genres, are you aware that there are any female writers using a male pen name or male writer using a female pen name?

Yes (go to 4)

No (go to 5) No
 
4. Could you name the writers that you are aware who are in this situation? (Go to 5)
   
5. Could you name your favourite writers? JK Rowling, Robert Jordan, Joanne Bertin, Anne 

McCaffery.
  
6. When you saw a female name on the cover of a book, which genre comes to your mind straightaway?

None specific
 
7. Why? I know that women write in all of them but I do think that a book written by a man will have 

more fight/war scenes and that women will deal more with emotions but (as with Robert Jordan) this

is just a generalization.
  
8. When you saw a male name on the cover of a book, which genre comes to your mind straightaway?

See question #6 and #7
 
9. Why?
  
10. Would the gender of a writer affect your decision on reading the writer’s works?

No
 
11. Why?

I like both. 
 
12. Once I had sorted the data from the questionnaire, there might be some further questions that I would like to ask also. Would you be willing to do so?

yes, but I have some crazy things going on in my life right now so it may take a couple of days to answer.

 

 

End of Questionnaire



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