09 Nov Week 12
Ethnography is an art in as much as it is a scientific data collection method. It is taking what you have observed and weaving it into a narrative about the people, places, and things you saw, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled. The piece about More than a War Story should be a good example for you about ethnocgraphic writing.
Ethnographic Narrative
Now that you have your fieldnotes from your your assignment last week, I want you to go through and code your data. This will be similar to the coding you did of your interview. Identify themes from those codes. Then write your one-page perfect paper about one of the folowing options:
- Identify a theme/code you discovered in your field site and write about it. Use your field notes!
- Describe the setting using narrative style that you might see in a fiction book, only it is not fiction.
- Use dialogue you overheard to discuss a topic that you think relevent and possibly a theme you would find if you did more observation. Make sure to use quotes and paraphrasing with this option as well as description. OR
- Using dramaturgical analysis (see reading I added) describe the setting, script, and how people managed their impressions on others.
Attach your typed-up fieldnotes, coding if applicable, and jottings to the back of the assignment or submit it as a separate file.
This is your time to be an author and write one page as if you were writing a novel using the factual information you gathered from your observation. For those of you who would like to look at many more examples of ethnographic writing see this page: https://sites.google.com/a/bhmschools.org/cis-writing/samples-1/samples
https://www.slideshare.net/hfordsa/qualitative-codes-and-coding
Analyzing and Reporting Qualitative Data: A how to Guide.
