“Can there be some kind of reconciliation between stories and science?” – Stoller p.188 After having many conversations in both this class and others about the nature of writing and…
English 5870
Commentary #10
by arussell • • 3 Comments
Adam Russell Ethnographer as Storyteller When I read Pryer’s article, I thought that she was making a case for fictionalization in the sense that events are fluid, and some things can be taken out all together while others are…
English 5870
Stoller
by Amble • • 2 Comments
At the beginning of this course, I had a vague idea that the way to ‘do’ ethnography was to show up with a notebook, a recorder, a video camera, observe, come home, edit everything down and end up with something…
English 5870
Paul Stoller
by Joel •
Joel Manfredi English 5870 Dr. De Vries Paul Stoller–Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story This reading from Paul Stoller seems relevant because it gets back to the idea of writing ethnography in somewhat of a memoir form. Yet Stoller does a great job…
English 5870
Paul Stoller
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Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries 12 May 2009 Commentary 10 “The way in which we choose to write is an ethical issue” (Pryer 10). When I read this line from Pryer’s article two week’s ago, I thought it summed…
English 5001
Emig
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Tina Bell English 5001 9 May 2009 Commentary I have always written the given assignment and then doubled the time it took me to calculate how quickly my most experienced might need to finish the writing assignment. I do this…