In addition to the ethnographic research you’ll need to do for your Empirical Research Project, you will need to include some quantitative data. This data will be used to supplement your observations, and to give you some insight into another research methodology. As you compile this data, keep in mind the following based on our class discussion on 3/20 and 3/27: Select a specific range of data to examine. Remember […]
Here is an example of a student’s quantitative data analysis. (And here is another.) What are they missing? What do they do well? What does the use of quantitative data do for the claims they are making? (Note: Remember that this student was working on a different assignment than the ERP we are doing in this class.) Part I. – Reading and Analyzing Before I ask you to think about […]
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 […]
