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Ethnography(according to WaW)
Ethnography is a research methodology for carefully
observing and describing people participating in some
activity.
At its broadest, ethnography can be written of entirecultures; more narrowly, ethnographies can be written of a
class of students, a church and its members, or a
videogame arcade and the gamers who play there.
WaW, p. 724
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Ethnographyfor UsWhat should we investigate?
What would someone need to
know to go undercover in thediscourse community youre
investigating?
SWALES SIX
Discourse
DEFINITION
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Research ObjectivesWhat should you be looking for?
Figure out if your communitymeets Swales criteria.
Please refer to the redefinedSwales characteristics from
class today to help you.
From the Discoursedefinition we learned onWednesday:
words
acts values
beliefs
attitudes
social identities
gestures glances
body positions
clothes
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Writing Your Research PlanYour research plan should include the following:
What community will
you be investigating?
Why are you interested
in this community?
What connection do youhave to it? What
existing knowledge do
you have about the
community?
What two (or more)methods of research do
you tentatively plan to
use? Why?
Interview (1 with a significantmember of your community, or 2with average members)
Survey (Must ask at least 5people a set of the same 5 or
more questions
Observations (You mustcomplete at least two 30 min 1hour long observations of yourcommunity, preferably in differentsituations and take notes)
Textual analysis (You willexamine key texts of yourcommunity for use of language,etc. in terms of discourse)