Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ETNOGEN TERMS

  1. I have heard of the following words:
  2. artifacts
  3. assumptions
  4. authority
  5. context
  6. culture
  7. dialect
  8. interviews
  9. questionnaire
  10. subculture
  11. survey
  12. theory
  13. transcript
  14. Informant
  15. interactions
  16. rituals

Words I have never heard of:

  1. confessional tale
  2. discourse community
  3. ethnographic research
  4. ethnography
  5. field research
  6. human subjects review board
  7. impressionist tale
  8. informed consent
  9. marginalization
  10. participant observer
  11. positioning
  12. proxemics
  13. realist tale
  14. research question
  15. response rate
  16. specialized vocabulary
  17. structured observation
  18. thick description
  19. triangulation
  20. underlife

Cyber-literacy-most useful parts/general readability

I didn't really enjoy reading this book I would have to say I enjoyed reading research matters more.

2nd chance Summary: Summary and Citation of "The Southpaw's Secret Semantics"

People who are left handed are not as closely related to those right handed as previously thought. Left hand users develop and process language different, they also suffer more when parts of the brain is injured, the main point is that left handed users are the complete opposite of right hand users.

Reaction to the "Guest Speaker" Steven Johnson on "Where Good Ideas Come From"

I thought the guest speaker was good he covered alot of good topics. The only thing I wasnt please with was how fast he presented information. I tryed to take notes but it was impossible to do with him talking so fast.

Progress Report:How do you feel about your topic and/ or overall research paper progress at this point

I feel my research proposal is going well so far today I checked books out of the library to help with the research because just article sources and websites from online weren't enough. So far Ive only skimmed one book and it broadened my horizon on what exactly global warming is and its effects on the effects.

Ideas I want to Brain-storm about for the Ethnographic Essay/Hyper-link Project

  1. Classroom Website for third grade.
  2. Write an essay about a subculture and after studying the culture for a few weeks.
  3. Re-write my research paper after more research
  4. Design a Website with all my English work hyper-linked to it.
  5. Create a how to video on things that can help my research project.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Ways I draft a paper

  1. write outlines.
  2. Google example of paper similar to what I am writing.
  3. take notes on books pertaining to my paper.
  4. free write.
  5. make brain storming webs with one main subject