Final Due Date

The final project will be due Tuesday, Nov. 22 before 12pm noon. I cannot accept late papers. Please e-mail me your project as an attached word document. Include a copy of your interview questions as well. Refer to the rubric on the blog and e-mail me if you have any questions. I will confirm that I have received your papers so if you don't hear from me by Wednesday noon, please try again. Thank you for a terrific quarter.

Project 4 Rubric

• Introduction provides a review of related literature / demonstrates understanding of that literature.
• Introduction shows a gap or niche in the conversation/research
• Introduction demonstrates how study will occupy that niche, previews the purpose/ argument of the study.
• Essay contains a description of the discourse community to be studied but doesn’t spend too much time on this description. Information in description is relevant to study.
• A methodology section details data collection methods and processes and hints at how data will be analyzed but does not begin presenting results.
• A results section presents RELEVANT results not just every piece of data collection.
• Results data is organized efficiently.
• Results data is analyzed / interpreted using relevant literature/theory.
• A conclusion section refers back to niche.
• Conclusion section provides new information about discourse communities in general which was gained from study of specific discourse community.
• Conclusion speculates on future research.
•  Tone emulates an academic style (formal prose, limited use of "I," active voice, third-person.

An essay in the A range effectively fulfills between 11-12 of the criteria

An essay in the B range effectively fulfills between 9-10 of the criteria

An essay in t he C range effectively fulfills between 6-8 of the criteria

An essay in the D range effectively fulfills between 3-5 of the criteria

A failing essay fulfills between 1-2 of the criteria.

Additional expectations for Honor Grades: (A and B)

+Essay is titled and contains a header with course information and your name.

+Works Cited follows MLA or APA conventions.

+Meets length requirement.

+Meets source requirement.

+Includes a copy of interview questions.

Peer Review 2

Don't forget to bring a hard copy of your extended ethnography draft to class tomorrow. This draft should include sections with results as well as a conclusion or discussion section. See you tomorrow!

Peer Review 1

Don't forget! Bring a rough draft (hard copy) of the first three sections of your ethnography to class tomorrow: Introduction, Discourse Community Description, Methodology. We'll have a Peer Review in 016.

Discourse Community Ethnography Outline

Introduction

• Brief review of the existing literature (published research) on the topic. ("We know X about discourse communities" [cite Swales, Gee, Johns, Mirabelli, and/or Wardle as appropriate"])
  
  
• Name a niche ("But we don't know Y" or "No one has looked at X").
  
  
• Explain how you will occupy the niche. This is a kind of preview where you say what you're going to discuss, what your study is trying to accomplish. Branick occupies a niche in the following sentence: "To figure this out, I conducted an ethnographic study on how the coaches at the University of Dayton go about reading people and reading the game" (561).
• Preview findings / Thesis (come back to this when you're finished with the whole thing)

A Description of the Discourse Community (similiar to "Lou's Restaurant" on 543)

• Use this section to describe this discourse community-but don't start analyzing the community until the results section. You could skip this section and have this information in the intro too.

Methodology -a description of how you collected and analyzed your data.

• who did you interview? how did you draft interview questions?
• how/ when did you observe? record conversations?
• What texts do you examine and how did you gain access to those texts?
• How did you decide which information to highlight in your results section? and which to leave out?Look back at Mirabelli's "methodology" section on 543 for a good example.

Results

• Discuss your findings in detail and compare them to the relevant research: specific elements or concepts of discourse communities presented in the literature. So if you're discussing authority in your discourse community? What can you add to what Johns has said about authority?

Implications/Conclusion.

• Zoom out. What can we learn about discourse communities in general though your investigation of this specific discourse community? Refer back to your niche or research question/ and tell us what we learn about this specific discourse community overall.

A Description of the Discourse Community (similiar to "Lou's Restaurant" on 543)

Post 18; "Coaches Can Read, Too"

Read this student example of a discourse community closely; it's another great model for you to emulate as you begin drafting your own ethnography. Then pay close attention to Branick's introduction and make a rough outline that identifies how Branick fulfills the following three rhetorical moves:


Establishing the territory-
Establishing a niche-
Explaining how he will fill the niche-

(To better understand these terms, look back on pages 6-8 in WAW for a summary of how the three moves function. )

250 words before class Tuesday.

Post 17; "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers"

In many ways, Mirabelli's article is a good model to study as you prepare to research and write your own ethnographies because it displays a basic empirical paradigm: research question, data collection, findings/results. What seems to be Mirabelli's research question and where does he state it? What kind of data did Mirabelli collect to analyze the diner discourse community? What seems to be his primary findings in answer to this research question?

250 words before class Monday