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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)