Reading Journal
| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context by Seth Kahn |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | In this article, Seth Kahn talks about what exactly ethnographic writing is. He discusses how ethnographic writing is a writing that is a lot more personal and something that really connects the writer to the reader. A lot of times in writing, an essay can end up sounding more factual than personal however with ethnographic writing, that is the opposite. Ethnography is more about relationship than fact and entirely focuses on the participant-observer relationship. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Pre-writing: reflections on what you know about the culture you’ll study, what you think you know
Journal: a running internal monologue |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
|
This reading connects to the last reading we did about formatting essays and making it sound more personal than factual without sounding biased. I think this essay really showed how to write a good ethnographic essay. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | My question about this article would probably be can you use ethnographic writing in all formats of essays? Or does it have to be something that is personal or relating to you. For example, could you use this type of writing in an argumentative essay? |