Statistics project

[Bullitt]

Ok folks here's the deal. I'm feverishly working on my stats project and need a bit of help in seeing how my wording is for this first portion of the paper (the non math part). It's due tomorrow by 10am so now is better than later if you've got anything to contribute. Yeah I know this is a little late in the game, procrastination has it's price. My main problems are (hooray growing up in the south) syntax (sentence structure). I'm hopped up on my Adderall atm so I'm hoping this is better than usual. So here it is, all constructive criticism welcome:


Design and Execution of the Study:
Being a commuter student myself, I decided to pursue a topic that I am personally interested in. The topic at hand is how important commuter student involvement on campus is to the general student population. My goal in this study was to investigate the variable of how important it is to the general student population to have commuter students more involved in on campus events. The questions ask to each individual sampled were: “Would you support an increase in school funding and number of events geared towards commuter students in order to get them more involved on campus? Or is the money better spent elsewhere on other projects such as dorm renovation, etc.?"
As of the Fall 2007 semester, the total enrollment for Malone College is 2385 students. This is my total population. As for a sample size, I chose to poll 5% of the total population giving me a sample size of 120 students. This study was observational in nature because I was not trying to influence the population in any way. I solely asked my questions and recorded the “yes” or “no” responses. Unfortunately, I had to resort to non-scientific convenience sampling in order to get my desired sample size. With a convenience sample comes a variety of issues that must be addressed, and I will do so later on when I go over the various issues and biases that I faced in researching this topic.