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 […]
