By now, you should have a clear idea of the question you’ll be answering through personal experience and outside resources. I would like us to now experiment with style using strategies we’ve learned from Pelias. Please respond to one of the prompts…
The Academic Tourist Freewrite
Pick one personal experience that Ronald Pelias shares in his auto ethnography, “The Academic Tourist.” Reflect on the way the author describes this experience. What kind of language does he use? Then, consider the definition of an auto ethnography: Using…
Security Logs
Pende Sawadogo The function of the log book within security workplaces serves as a record of the people who have entered and exited a specific location. According to the security team, (n.d.), it is “used for keeping information about related…
Autethnography Prewriting 11/20
Sometimes, the best way to generate a question that is related to the personal and the cultural is through reflecting on the “core components” of our identity. Core components include: 1. things you have (e.g., I am a mom –…
Autoethnography
Autoethnography conventions: challenge traditional writing can be in first person/mostly is in first person addresses unanswered questions includes new and unique ideas from outside research shares personal knowledge relate it to a larger community/connected to a larger community challenge standard…
Cuban Literacy Campaign
Erica Soler In 1961, Cuba exercised a unique strategy to campaign for literacy in the fight for equality amongst its citizens. Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba, summoned students to assist in the efforts to promote literacy by volunteering…
Standard American English
Should we have a Standard form of American English? Please post your belief as a comment.
Possible Questions for Autoethnography
Your research questions that will guide your auto ethnography can be deeply personal or cultural. For example: What does it mean to be a woman of color? Why am I so insecure about being a woman in academia? Let’s generate questions…
Medical Records
Joel Ortiz Medical records are frequently exchanged between all professions in order to provide the best possible care for the patients. Medical records are a history of a patient’s medical history including care, previous treatment, prescriptions, diagnoses or medications taken.…
Post your children’s book paragraph here!
Step 1: Define the discourse community Children (2 to 10) and Parents—storybooks, pictures, how to speak, how to write, how to read, how to live, how to behave, what is good, what is bad, how to survive, child’s insight, questions,…
