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Commentary #1: Purcell-Gates

Adam Russell Professor DeVries English 5870 23 January 2009 Commentary #1 The Fine Balance between Participant and Observer Last Saturday’s episode of Law & Order: SVU contained a plot device where a stripper is interrogated for a brutal attack on…

Purcell-Gates Commentary

Michael Calou Dr. Devries English 5870 February 24, 2009   Ethnographic Research Commentary #1               The author provides an introduction to the process of ethnographic research.  The two other readings for this week, “Rewriting” and “An Ethnographic Perspective” complement…

Week 2 Commentary

Joseph Harris offers a new and refreshing look at the ways that we look at texts, especially in the way we use them in our writing as intellectuals. Harris manages to give good advise and good examples of ways that…

Week 2 Purcell-Gates & the Contiuum

When I first realized that we would have to perform ethnographic research in various writing classrooms, I was a little nervous. I have only recently grasped the concept of ethnography and have never conducted research where I would actually have…

Commentary #1 Purcell-Gates

Keri Ortiz 5870 Dr. DeVries February 24, 2009 Ethnographic Research In the chapter titled “Ethnographic Research” author Victoria Purcell-Gates gives the reader an overview of the process behind ethnography and a few different approaches as observed by Purcell-Gates in several…

The Right Stuff…

Joseph Harris gets to the point in the first chapter or Rewriting.  He offers students a set of strategies for making strong and generous use of the work of other writers in their own prose. He explains what  it means…

Paired Observation Keri Ortiz and Tina Bell

Keri Ortiz Practicum 5870 Assignment 1   Description Comparison   An Apple Computer Displaying Ethereal Education               The item to be described is an Apple monitor, keyboard, and mouse displaying a webpage from Ethereal Education at approximately 7:40 on…

Week 2 Commentary #1

Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries February 24, 2008 Commentary #1     It seems that Victoria Purcell-Gates in her article, “”Ethnographic Research,” not only validates the importance of ethnographic research as a method for studying areas about which little…