Reading Journal
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| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Kahn, Seth. Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context. wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/kahn–putting-ethnographic-writing.pdf. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | Kahn begins this article describing the way students might feel: why would we need to study ethnographic for our college writing? Kahn goes on to explain that any good writer is an ethnographer. Kahn says that it helps readers generate, collect, and analyze/synthesize more material. Good writers either write from experience or not directly from experience. To write from experience, one must learn from that experience. A personal essay would be a form of this because one is writing from lessons he or she learned from a personal experience. Not only is it important to write from one’s own personal experience but also others’ experiences. This is the task of an ethnographer. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
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Ethnographers- study culture
Ethnographic writing- writing from your own experience or the experience of others |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This connects to Melzner’s article about discourse communities because he would not have been able to write about his guitar group community without having that experience himself. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | What is a time that you wrote ethnographic writing and did not even know it? |