Week 13 announcements and homework for 12/1

Today in class you will be given a Strategies Worksheet. The three strategies are nothing

as inventive as the wheel, but they are basic strategies used in drafting and revising:

1) Homework for December 1st: 

- Write me a 1-page (minimum) Dear Christopher letter, which includes:

1. One (1) paragraph response to Peer Review of draft.

-name of review; how they helped

2. 2-3 paragraphs discussing your ethnography:

- Name your working thesis

- Name the cultural norms and behavior your developing

  from your thesis -->

- discuss organization/ structure:

- provide the specific section names, and/or

- provide the smaller claims you're discussing in ethnography

-Name 2-3 secondary sources that you know you are using

-give a brief explanation for each, answering: 

1. why/how you are using

- historical perspective?

- foundation for theory on behavior

- similar study?

- ??? 

3. Anything else you want to include in terms of discussing your project 

    that may be addressed before the final draft is due.

2) December 1st: We will continue discussing drafting, revising, and other aspects of the ethnography, as we gear towards presentations. Our main classroom focus, now, is on maximizing the integration of our research, especially secondary sources, into our ethnography papers.

Final Note for post: I will be posting some example student ethnographies within the next day. These examples may be posted here and/or on Oasis.

- please note: the aspect most often lacking in final ethnographies in past semesters has been the incorporation of secondary sources (library-found research).  Don't make our two trips to the library go to waste; those trips are meant to emphasize the importance of secondary sources.

for Wed. 11/5

Read the following articles, considering the language. Pay attention to how quickly the authors get into description of the place and the people. What kind of detail is being used to set the scene ASAP? How is each neighborhood defined within the larger city that surrounds each?

Also, pay attention to the structures of each article; how the authors decided to organize how to show you each city, and in what order they provided info. 

These articles are meant as some inspiration in your own ethnography writing. As you begin to draft the first pages of that final paper, look at how these published travel writers deal with writing of other cultures.

The first is  article is "36 Hours in Paris."

The second is "Newly Chic in Istanbul."