| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Seth Kahn. “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context.” Title of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, a peer-reviewed open textbook series for the writing classroom., 2011, 175-191. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | Starting off in Kahn’s article there are some fairly dense words that may be unfamiliar to most students like ethnography. I simply had no idea what this was, but as I continued to read through Kahn’s writings I came to learn a lot more than just what ethnography was and how it applied to my college writing class. Kahn’s writing is very valuable in multiple ways, Not only is he able to inform students about ethnography but he teaches students how to take their own personal experiences, and even experiences from other people, and apply them alongside the idea of ethnography in their writing. He allows us to get creative in our minds with ways to take the ideas he is discussing while still keeping us focused on the words in front of us. Overall Kahn’s writing is very easy to follow and something that is great for students. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Ethnography – the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
participant-observation research – like ethnography it is whats basically stated in the title, research that is based on personal experiences and observations or someone else’s experience and observation |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This article is able to connect to our current work in class as we continue in discourse communities and our major projects. As we move into MP2 we will be doing lots of research as we need our 6 sources so this type of participant-observation research and the ideas surrounding it will be very valuable in the future for this class. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | What is one way you could apply participant-observation research into your class writing? Do you think it’s possible to apply it to your daily writing too? |