WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW

Factors that influence the writing activity (CHAT factors):

5 Elements that compose the text (Genre Analysis)

Rhetorical Purpose and Audience

Content (message) Language Structure Design

~Questions for Reading Sample

~According to the quick guide, what are the requirements for the observation writings?

Do the sample writings fulfill the requirements of the quick guide?~

What’s the setting/context of these observation writings?

What’s the purpose of these writings? Who might be the audience of these

writings?

If we all agree they belong to the same genre, what seems to be the characteristics of these writings?

Elements Observations

Audience &Purpose

Content Who, where, when, what, how

Structure

Language

Design

Elements Observations

Audience &Purpose

Pedagogical purpose: find out philosophy and style of teaching; self reflection; sample/model

observer, the observed instructor, other instructors

Content “This is how the class was organized”

Structure Information at beginning chronological/sequential

Language Objective, Indifferent, Professional

Design Illustrations.

Easy-to-identify but also professional fonts~~

ETHNOGRAPHY

CONTEXT ANTHROPOLOGY &

CULTURAL STUDIES

PURPOSE Research…Answer questions… Record the interaction and events of a group of people from an insider perspective… Avoid ethnocentric viewpoints…~

AUDIENCE The social science majors & scholars…limited amount of people

GENRE ANALYSISOF THE ORIGINAL ETHNOGRAPHY

GENRE ANALYSIS

ETHNOGRAPHY IN ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

Purpose &

Audience

Test hypothesis & reach conclusions; Academics

Language Professional, academic, objective

Content Faithful record of what happened:

Who (subject), what, where, when, how

Structure Hypothesis+Observation+Conclusion

Design Certain format (font, page no., illustrations…) ~

Build our own rubricsfor our event ethnography!

WHERE TO BEGIN?FIRST STEP: CONSIDER

OUR…~

Context Classroom Setting, Campus

Purpose ?

Audience ?

OUR ETHNOGRAPHY OUR ETHNOGRAPHY RUBRICSRUBRICS

Language?Content?

Structure?Design?

Context Classroom Setting, Campus

Purpose Test effectiveness of the visual text

Audience Yourself, your peers & Me

Our Campus Event Ethnography Rubrics ~

Language Professional, Descriptive, Objective, & as detailed as possible!

Content (Who, where, when, Why, how)

Location, time, who's there? Amount of people that show up. Intended audience? Peoples reaction. (details)

Structure Chronological

Hypothesis

Observation/conclusion

Information about the event

Design Professional font, visual text, illustrations