Part I. In-Class Writing Take about 10 minutes to respond to these questions in paragraph form in your in class writing folder: Where do we see qualitative research being employed in our everyday interactions? What genres do we interact with which typically make use of qualitative methodology? Give an example, and explain why qualitative methods are effective for that particular context. (Or, why you don’t find them to be so.) […]
Get into the same peer review groups we worked in last time (we’ll have new groups for our first draft peer review next week). Read through the proposal. Circle the place in the proposal that best describes the purpose of, and motivation behind, what the author will be doing. (You’re looking not necessarily for a thesis statement but rather for the statements that tell you what the author is trying to […]
Part I. Example Ethnography Discussion Get into groups according to the reading you were assigned. Together, discuss the following questions. Take notes in your in-class writing folder in order to help us generate discussion when we report back to the whole class. What did you notice first when you began reading the piece? What appealed to you as a reader? What didn’t work for you? What rhetorical choices do you see […]
Step 1 / prewriting due: done in class on February 22nd Step 2 / proposal and secondary research: due by class time March 1st (we will go over these in class) Step 3 / autoethnographic observation and journaling / fieldwork due: start by February 25th; finish by March 8th by class time Step 4 / quantitative data gathering: start in class on March 20th; continue on your own Step 5 […]
We’ll be reflecting on each of our assignments this semester in order to gain a better idea of our writing processes. Please take 20 minutes (writing the entire time) to respond in paragraph form to the following questions: Take another look at the guidelines for this assignment. Where did you struggle to understand the assignment? How did you end up interpreting that section of the guidelines? Do you think your […]
Part I. Pre-discussion questions – Gee Question 1: Briefly summarize Gee’s argument to yourself. What is he describing and defining in the chapter? Question 2: Gee mentions several characteristics of Discourse. What are they? Be able to point to specific quotes in the article for us to discuss. Question 3: Consider the location of this piece. Who did Gee write it for? Question 4: What “typical” features of this genre […]
Please respond to the following questions in paragraph form. Your responses should be included in your in class writing folder in Google Drive. Do visual arguments need captions? Are pictures more emotional than words? Are words more informative than pictures? Do photographs provide more trustworthy evidence than words or other types of pictures? Answer questions on pp. 114-115 from the reading using one of the categories of images linked […]
First Draft Due: Monday, February 6th (Peer review in class. A missing draft will be counted as an absence.) Second Draft Due: Monday, February 13th Conferences: Monday, February 13th and Tuesday, February 14th Final Draft Due: Monday, February 20th How does a song get categorized in a particular genre of music? What characteristics attract us to our favorite artists and styles? And how do artists make use of genre characteristics […]
For our exercise today, get into groups of three. After you are assigned a scenario number, open the appropriate Google doc in this folder. Read the scenario, and respond to the questions. Type your responses in a Google doc in your in class writing folder. (Share the document amongst your group so that everyone has it in their folders.)
