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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
