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Church and religion, a place to find and incorporate peace
Everybody wants to be happy. Peace has a major role in developing happiness, because without peace happiness seldom finds its way. Not all paths and behavior lead to find and live, in practical ways, peace. Church – the physical building - and religion – a set of faith in a reality broader than self - are two of these direction of a peace in life. Although no mentioning any particular church and faith, let’s consider those church and religions promoting wellbeing for all people on Earth. So, going to church and practicing a religion turns out to be a place and a way of life to, not only find, but also incorporate, peace in the very exercise of living.
Being a religious person myself after experiencing conversion, I decided to do my research on the subject of religion and faith, so dear to me and so much the expression of "myself". Because religion and faith are broad subjects, I decided to narrow the research to the effect of peace, personal peace. And I have, for the purpose of this papper, a very personal reason.
I am now 56 years old and have been participating in church actively for more than 30 years. I had never been a bad person bedore my conversion, but participating in church brought me a personal peace that, is not something I do not take for granted, because is a reality to be sought and put in practice every day. That is, hard work. According to the persons and situations, life presentes or we construct our ways. Human beings, directly or indirectly, create in a great degree, what life is all about, I am a priest for six years and 5 months now, and one of my meaningful responsabilities is to, by attendidng confession, giving spiritual guidance or even just talking to people, help them and get helped, find peace in a world, community, family and person many times sourrounded by wars of any kind.
The subject of working to make religion to be a reality in a practical and daily basis, affecting the person in the level of the very exercise of having a life, a peaceful life as much as possible, has been my path, both in church and in religion. With the text to be written about ethnography, I realised that it has been a long time since I talked to people about religious beliefs and practices in an way that the information comes from them, not from myself trying to help them. I mean, beyond what it is obvious and granted, give on step ahead. I might be, since a pretty good time, in "automatic mode" and wanted to, besides listening to people and considering things (from a probably new perspective), make a revision of what has been my life in this perspective and community and come to a conclusion if the way I have been conducting my religion and faith is matching people’s perspectives and necessities. So, after such step of considering myself part of a community, I decided to search for the space that embraces the physical center of the community and the persons who participate in church, in same way. What is different is that, instead of them looking for me, it was the other way around; I came to them.
My fieldnotes are from the church where I preside most of the masses. I started outside and then came inside. I noticed and meditated about all the high buildings surrounding the church, this same edifice that decades ago was the tallest in the neighborhood. What used to be the tallest tower and a reference, now is just a tiny construction with no visual reference at all. In a world lacking so much peace, maybe the physical reference of time given by the huge clock on top is gone; maybe the image of Saint Joseph on top of the clock is no more a physical indication of what is to be found inside. When a person walks by withou knowing the place is a church, seldom realises the purpuse of the edifice. Looking above doesn’t help either because all the other buildings grab the attention in the first place. Anyway, in such a busy life and occupations in checking the smartphone, who directs hes/her eyes towards the sky, anyway? My conclusion is that the spiritual reference of the church is more importante and essential than the physical reference today, at least for this temple.
Then I decide to enter. The church is small and cozy. Sitting on one of the pews and looking at the building itself gave me a fresh perspective of the place I am so accostumed to. The time I was there was very signficant, also. Usually, I preside mass in the very morning or at night, times when there are people around, noises abounds and conectiong with people and their occupations of the duty ahead. This time to do the fieldnotes, it seems to be a completely diferent place. My fieldnotes happed to be at lunchtime os weekdays. The place transmits peace. It is almost all white, color broken by the pews (light brown) and the saints’ images. The place is clean, smells good and the silence is imperative and invites to meditation. I saw some people sitting, some others kneeling and a few standing, specially in front of the images of the saints. The silence is broken occasionally by some whispering of people either praying or briefely greeting each other. Once or twice some snoring from people falling asleep, on purpuse of by chance. Not all of them visit the place to pray. A few were there with no spiritual purpose: to take a rest, flee from the hot sun outside; some checked their smartphone now and then. I visit the church for 5 days, always from twelve to one pm. The fieldnote experience gave me not only a fresh perspective of the place but also a "flesh" perspective, comming to a conclusion (reinforcing my mission in life) that the building is a place to gather people and welcome them, helping them with their struggles and their hopes. Not solving their problems, but giving them tools so they themselves can make a decision and act upon it. The interviews done there helped to reinforce and such conclusion.
I was able to do eight interviews, only. All of them adutls, 5 women and 3 men. I travel a lot and, within two weeks, what I was able to do was this much. They were very good interviews from people I don’t have acquaintances. Some of them knew I was a priest and this was the first time they talked to me besides the usual greetings. They all knew what the interview was about. I decided to interview them on the spot with a purpose of not giving them too much time to be prepared. On purpose, I didnt whant to give them too much time ahead to think about the interview. I intended to capture what came to that moment. I had only 5 questions ready and I was prepared to conduct the interviews asking other questions which would come up at the moment and according to the development of the conversation. The first question, after asking their names and how they were, was to know what they came or came to that church for. The answer was unanimous: to find peace. Other words were mentioned, like praying, ask help from God and/or the saints, returning to give thanks to God and the saints, but the one word said from all of them was “peace”. The next question, derived from the fist one, was to ask what kind of piece, that is, where they needed the peace. The asnwer varied: five of them needed peace in the family (all women), at work (two men and three women), in the religious community they usually went (one women) and peace within the self (four women and all three men). Although they touched on other subjects, I perceived that the central point was peace, in a way or another. And they were there in church not only to get stronger and getting more peace, but also to take such a peace with them and apply to their lives, their families, their workplace, etc. All the interviews, none of them lengtly because the people interviewed were all there during their lunchitme from work, revolved basically around the “peace” subject. Although the interviews were not long, for sure they were moments of real encounter with real persons. That is the most precious of all this academic work.
The academic asks also asks to include 2 to 3 multimodal elements such as photographs, videos (of the people, sites, activities, and artifacts that I have researched), hyperlinks to relevant materials, clips of audio or video from recorded interviews, and so forth. I had a video from Youtube and a picture. That said, new information from the course inform the students that they cannot put them, directly, in the final work due to the some lack of technical support. I have them, but they will not be available in the course's site because of the new information given.
This results from academic work reinforces my personal mission in life, which is to connect with people, help them and be helped by them. It gave a refreshing view on what I am: a people's person, altough sometimes I feel inadequate in my community, specially when I consider the comments that comes from some of my colleagues, trying to convince me not to give too much attention to “regular” people or telling me that I don't give credit to myself by being such a simple person. This academic work sent me back to my roots and deepened my understanding and experience of life, reinforcing what being a priest is all about: be there for people in need, not necessary and almost exclusively giving attention to academic results and "high end" people, like people with lots of courses, rich people, persons with political power in the community.
Strangelly enough, all this academic work on fieldnotes and interviews supports the frames of my general insight in life and, specifically, my insight in this perspective of life: to be there to help others and be helped. The academic work reinforces my beliefs, values, and practices, not only defining the community I belong to, but also confirming the conclusions about my very existence, my seach for peace for all, physically and spiritually speaking. Gladly, I am not alone. Join us!
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Everybody want to be happy. Peace has a major role in developing happiness, because without peace happiness seldom finds its way. Not all paths and behavior lead to find and live, in practical ways, peace. Curch – the physical building - and religion – a set of faith in a reality broader than self - is one of these places and direction in life. Although no considering any particular church and faith, let’s consider those church and religions promoting wellbeing for all people on Earth. So, going to church and practicing a religion turns out to be a place and a way of life to, not only find, but also incorporate peace in the very exercise of living.
Being a religious person myself after experiencing conversion, I decided to do my research on the subject of religion and faith, so dear to me and so much the expression of "myself". Because religion and faith are broad subjects, I decided to narrow the research to the effect of peace, personal peace. And I have, for the purpose of this papper, a very personal reason.
I am now 56 years old and have been participating in church actively for more than 30 years. I had never been a bad person bedore my conversion, but participating in church brought me a personal peace that, although is not something I take for granted, is a reality to be sought and put in practice every day, according to the persons and situations life presentes or we, human beings, directly or indirectly create, I am a priest since november 2009 and one of my meaningful responsabilities is, by attendidng confession, giving spiritual guidance or even just talking to people, is to help them find peace in a world, country, state, city, community, family and person many times sourrounded by wars of any kind.
The subject of putting religion to work in a practical and daily basis, affecting the person in the level of the very exercise of having a life, a peaceful life as much as possible, has been my path, both in church and in religion. With the text to be written about ethnography, I realised that it has been a long time since I talked to people about religious beliefs and practices in an way that the information comes from them, not from myself trying to help them. I mean, beyond what it is obvious and doing one step ahead. I might be, since a pretty good time, in "automatic mode" and wanted to, besides listening to people and considering things (from a probably new perspective), make a revision of what has been my life in this perspective and community and come to a conclusion if the way I have been conducting my religion and faith is matching people’s perspectives and necessities. So, after such step of considering myself part of a community, I decided to search for the space that embraces the physical center of the community and the persons who participate in the community, the difference being that instead of them looking for me, it was the other way around; I came to them.
My fieldnotes are from the church where I preside most of the masses. I started outside and then came inside. I noticed and meditated about all the buildings surrounding the church, this same edifice that decades ago was the tallest in the neighborhood. What used to be the tallest tower and a reference, now is just a tiny construction with no visual reference at all. In a world lacking so much peace, maybe the physical reference of time given by the huge clock on top is gone; maybe the image of,Saint Joseph on top of the clock is no more a physical indication of what is to be found inside. When a person walks by withou knowing the place is a church, seldom realises the purpuse of the edifice. Looking above doesn’t help either because all the other buildings grab the attention in the first place. Anyway, in such a busy life and occupations in checking the smartphone, who directs hes/her eyes towards the sky, anyway? My conclusion is that the spiritual reference of the church is more importante than the physical reference noways, at least for this temple.
Then I decide to enter. The church is small and cozy. Sitting on one of the pews and looking at the building itself gave a fresh perspective of the place I am so accostumed to. The time I was there was very signficant, also. Usually, I preside mass in the very morning or at night, times when there are people around, noises made and with the ocupations of a duty ahead. This time it seems to be a completely diferent place. My fieldnotes happed to be at lunchtime os weekdays. The place transmits peace. It is almost all white, color broken by the pews (light brown) and the saints’ images. The place is clean, smells good and the silence is imperative and invites to meditation. I saw some people sitting, some others kneeling and a few standing, specially in front of the images of the saints. The silence is broken occasionally by some whispering of people either praying or briefely greeting each other. Once or twice some snoring from people falling asleep, on purpuse of by chance. Not all of them visit the place to pray. A few were there with no spiritual purpose: to take a rest, flee from the hot sun outside; some checked their smartphone now and then. I visit the church for 5 days, always from twelve to one pm. The fieldnote experience gave me not only a fresh perspective of the place but also a "flesh" perspective, comming to a conclusion (reinforcing my mission in life) that the building is a place to gather people and welcome them, helping them with their struggles and their hopes. Not solving their problems, but giving them tools so they themselves can make a decision and act upon it. The interviews done there helped to reinforce and restablesh such conclusion.
I was able to do eight interviews, only. All of them adutls, 5 women and 3 men. I travel a lot and, within two weeks, that what I was able to do. They were very good interviews from people I don’t have acquaintances. Some of them knew I was a priest and this was the first time they talked to me besides the usual greeting. They all knew what the interview was about. I decided to interview them on the spot with a purpose of not giving them too much time to be preparede, like it would be if I asked to interview them later in another time. I intended to capture what came to that moment. I had only 5 questions ready and I was prepared to conduct the interviews asking other questions which would come up at the moment and according to the development of the conversation. The first question, after asking their names and how they were, was to know what they came or came to that church. The answer was unanimous: to find peace. Other words were mentioned, like praying, ask help from God and/or the saints, returning to give thanks to God and the saints, but the word said, from all of them, it was “to find peace”. The next question, derived from the fist one, was to ask what kind of piece, that is, where they needed the peace. The asnwer varied: five of them needed peace in the family (all women), at work (two men and three women), in the religious community they usually went (one women) and peace within the self (four women and all three men). Although they touched on other subjects, I perceived that the central point was peace, in a way or another. And they were there in church not only to get stronger and getting more peace, but also to take such a peace with them and apply to their lives, their families, their workplace, etc. All the interviews, none of them lengtly because the people interviewed were all there during their lunchitme from work, revolved basically around the “peace” subject. Although the interviews were not long, for sure they were moments of real encounter with real persons. That is the most precious of all this academic work.
The academic taks also asks to include 2 to 3 multimodal elements such as photographs, videos (of the people, sites, activities, and artifacts that I have researched), hyperlinks to relevant materials, clips of audio or video from recorded interviews, and so forth. I had a video from Youtube and a picture. That said, new information from the course tells the students that they cannot put them, directly, in the final work due to the some lack of technical support. I have them, but they will not be available in the course's site because of the new information given.
This results from academic work reinforces my personal mission in life, which is to connect with people, help them and be helped by them. It gave a refreshing view on what I am: a people's person, altough sometimes I feel inadequate in my community, specially when I consider the comments that comes from some of my colleagues, trying to convince me not to give too much attention to “regular” people or telling me that I don't give credit to myself by being such a simple person. This academic work sent me back to my roots and deepned my understanding and experience of life, reinforcing what being a priest is all about: be there for people in need, not necessary and almost exclusively giving attention to academic results and "high end" people, like academics, rich people, persons with political power in the community.
Strangelly enough, all this work on fieldnotes and interviews supports the frames of my general insight in life and, specifically, my insight in this perspective of life: to be there to help others and be helped. The academic work reinforces my beliefs, values, and practices, not only defining the community I belong to, but also confirming the conclusions about my very existence, my seach for peace for all, physically and spiritually speaking. Gladly, I am not alone. Join us!
Being a religious person myself after experiencing conversion, I decided to do my research on the subject of religion and faith, so dear to me and so much the expression of "myself". Because religion and faith are broad subjects, I decided to narrow the research to the effect of peace, personal peace. And I have, for the purpose of this papper, a very personal reason.
I am now 56 years old and have been participating in church actively for more than 30 years. I had never been a bad person bedore my conversion, but participating in church brought me a personal peace that, although is not something I take for granted, is a reality to be sought and put in practice every day, according to the persons and situations life presentes or we, human beings, directly or indirectly create, I am a priest since november 2009 and one of my meaningful responsabilities is, by attendidng confession, giving spiritual guidance or even just talking to people, is to help them find peace in a world, country, state, city, community, family and person many times sourrounded by wars of any kind.
The subject of putting religion to work in a practical and daily basis, affecting the person in the level of the very exercise of having a life, a peaceful life as much as possible, has been my path, both in church and in religion. With the text to be written about ethnography, I realised that it has been a long time since I talked to people about religious beliefs and practices in an way that the information comes from them, not from myself trying to help them. I mean, beyond what it is obvious and doing one step ahead. I might be, since a pretty good time, in "automatic mode" and wanted to, besides listening to people and considering things (from a probably new perspective), make a revision of what has been my life in this perspective and community and come to a conclusion if the way I have been conducting my religion and faith is matching people’s perspectives and necessities. So, after such step of considering myself part of a community, I decided to search for the space that embraces the physical center of the community and the persons who participate in the community, the difference being that instead of them looking for me, it was the other way around; I came to them.
My fieldnotes are from the church where I preside most of the masses. I started outside and then came inside. I noticed and meditated about all the buildings surrounding the church, this same edifice that decades ago was the tallest in the neighborhood. What used to be the tallest tower and a reference, now is just a tiny construction with no visual reference at all. In a world lacking so much peace, maybe the physical reference of time given by the huge clock on top is gone; maybe the image of,Saint Joseph on top of the clock is no more a physical indication of what is to be found inside. When a person walks by withou knowing the place is a church, seldom realises the purpuse of the edifice. Looking above doesn’t help either because all the other buildings grab the attention in the first place. Anyway, in such a busy life and occupations in checking the smartphone, who directs hes/her eyes towards the sky, anyway? My conclusion is that the spiritual reference of the church is more importante than the physical reference noways, at least for this temple.
Then I decide to enter. The church is small and cozy. Sitting on one of the pews and looking at the building itself gave a fresh perspective of the place I am so accostumed to. The time I was there was very signficant, also. Usually, I preside mass in the very morning or at night, times when there are people around, noises made and with the ocupations of a duty ahead. This time it seems to be a completely diferent place. My fieldnotes happed to be at lunchtime os weekdays. The place transmits peace. It is almost all white, color broken by the pews (light brown) and the saints’ images. The place is clean, smells good and the silence is imperative and invites to meditation. I saw some people sitting, some others kneeling and a few standing, specially in front of the images of the saints. The silence is broken occasionally by some whispering of people either praying or briefely greeting each other. Once or twice some snoring from people falling asleep, on purpuse of by chance. Not all of them visit the place to pray. A few were there with no spiritual purpose: to take a rest, flee from the hot sun outside; some checked their smartphone now and then. I visit the church for 5 days, always from twelve to one pm. The fieldnote experience gave me not only a fresh perspective of the place but also a "flesh" perspective, comming to a conclusion (reinforcing my mission in life) that the building is a place to gather people and welcome them, helping them with their struggles and their hopes. Not solving their problems, but giving them tools so they themselves can make a decision and act upon it. The interviews done there helped to reinforce and restablesh such conclusion.
I was able to do eight interviews, only. All of them adutls, 5 women and 3 men. I travel a lot and, within two weeks, that what I was able to do. They were very good interviews from people I don’t have acquaintances. Some of them knew I was a priest and this was the first time they talked to me besides the usual greeting. They all knew what the interview was about. I decided to interview them on the spot with a purpose of not giving them too much time to be preparede, like it would be if I asked to interview them later in another time. I intended to capture what came to that moment. I had only 5 questions ready and I was prepared to conduct the interviews asking other questions which would come up at the moment and according to the development of the conversation. The first question, after asking their names and how they were, was to know what they came or came to that church. The answer was unanimous: to find peace. Other words were mentioned, like praying, ask help from God and/or the saints, returning to give thanks to God and the saints, but the word said, from all of them, it was “to find peace”. The next question, derived from the fist one, was to ask what kind of piece, that is, where they needed the peace. The asnwer varied: five of them needed peace in the family (all women), at work (two men and three women), in the religious community they usually went (one women) and peace within the self (four women and all three men). Although they touched on other subjects, I perceived that the central point was peace, in a way or another. And they were there in church not only to get stronger and getting more peace, but also to take such a peace with them and apply to their lives, their families, their workplace, etc. All the interviews, none of them lengtly because the people interviewed were all there during their lunchitme from work, revolved basically around the “peace” subject. Although the interviews were not long, for sure they were moments of real encounter with real persons. That is the most precious of all this academic work.
The academic taks also asks to include 2 to 3 multimodal elements such as photographs, videos (of the people, sites, activities, and artifacts that I have researched), hyperlinks to relevant materials, clips of audio or video from recorded interviews, and so forth. I had a video from Youtube and a picture. That said, new information from the course tells the students that they cannot put them, directly, in the final work due to the some lack of technical support. I have them, but they will not be available in the course's site because of the new information given.
This results from academic work reinforces my personal mission in life, which is to connect with people, help them and be helped by them. It gave a refreshing view on what I am: a people's person, altough sometimes I feel inadequate in my community, specially when I consider the comments that comes from some of my colleagues, trying to convince me not to give too much attention to “regular” people or telling me that I don't give credit to myself by being such a simple person. This academic work sent me back to my roots and deepned my understanding and experience of life, reinforcing what being a priest is all about: be there for people in need, not necessary and almost exclusively giving attention to academic results and "high end" people, like academics, rich people, persons with political power in the community.
Strangelly enough, all this work on fieldnotes and interviews supports the frames of my general insight in life and, specifically, my insight in this perspective of life: to be there to help others and be helped. The academic work reinforces my beliefs, values, and practices, not only defining the community I belong to, but also confirming the conclusions about my very existence, my seach for peace for all, physically and spiritually speaking. Gladly, I am not alone. Join us!
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Instructions:
WRITING PROJECT #2 - ETHNOGRAPHY
BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
For Writing Project 1, you examined a ritual, practice, behavior, or habit (what we will generically refer to as a “cultural phenomenon”) in your personal life to better understand your cultural identity, relying on the conventions of autoethnography to write about it from a first-person perspective. In many ways, you crafted a narrative (or story) that explained how and why this cultural phenomenon defined who you are as an individual.
For Writing Project 2, we are going to ask you to look beyond your own identity to the identity of a larger cultural group or community to which you belong. We are all a part of multiple, different, sometimes even contradictory cultural groups or communities: through our families, we might be connected to a specific ethnic or racial community; our religion might connect us to another community; the music we listen to might connect us to another group; sports activities might connect us to yet another community. This assignment asks you to choose one of these groups or communities to which you belong and to investigate it.
You will investigate this group or community in order to inform others about what these cultural phenomena suggest about the community and its values, beliefs, and practices. This will give you and your readers greater insight into how the group or community understands and defines its own identity. As an insider, you may think you already know your community well. However, one of the goals of the project is to challenge your own preconceptions and reflect more deeply on what defines this group. To this end, you will engage in research as a participant-observer, meaning you will engage in primary research—interviews, observations, and field notes—to understand this cultural phenomenon from the inside out.
REQUIREMENTS AND DELIVERABLES
1. In your essay, you should include a narrative structure that tells the story of how you conducted your research.
2. You should summarize, explain, and discuss the results of your close, detailed observations and field notes in a way that is understandable to your readers.
3. You should also summarize, explain, and discuss the results of your interview(s).
4. Drawing upon your observations, field notes, and interview materials, your essay should present your reflections and insights on the community or group you have researched. Your primary insight should derive from your synthesis of the data you have accumulated: your observations, field notes, and interview materials. You should discuss this material at length, explaining how it supports or frames your insight, what it suggests about the role of specific beliefs, values, and practices in defining the community, and drawing conclusions about why and how the community defines itself.
5. Your essay should be organized in such a way that a reader can follow your thinking and reasoning from paragraph to paragraph and within each paragraph. Your primary insight should help to structure the essay for the reader.
6. You should include 2-3 multimodal elements such as photographs (of the people, sites, activities, and artifacts that you have researched), hyperlinks to relevant materials, clips of audio or video from recorded interviews, and so forth. You must make sure that your reader understands why you are including these elements and why including them enriches your piece of writing. Consider what media beyond text might reinforce your main idea to readers, convey in another way the significance of your autoethnography, and/or appeal to your readers from a different register.
7. Your completed essay should have a title, be approximately 1700 words in length, and be formatted to adhere to the MLA or APA style guide.
PROJECT SUBMISSION
- Rough Draft: Your rough draft will be submitted for peer review and to your e-portfolio.
- Revised Draft: Your revised draft should be uploaded to your e-portfolio.
TIPS
- Get started early.
- Review this week’s materials and discussions.
- Set a writing/research schedule and stick to it.
***NOTE: By clicking Submit, I certify that I have SECURED PERMISSION to use and post the results of my interviews. I also certify that I have received and retained signatures (electronic or physical) from any and all interviewees on the interview consent form provided in the ENG101 GFA course.***
BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
For Writing Project 1, you examined a ritual, practice, behavior, or habit (what we will generically refer to as a “cultural phenomenon”) in your personal life to better understand your cultural identity, relying on the conventions of autoethnography to write about it from a first-person perspective. In many ways, you crafted a narrative (or story) that explained how and why this cultural phenomenon defined who you are as an individual.
For Writing Project 2, we are going to ask you to look beyond your own identity to the identity of a larger cultural group or community to which you belong. We are all a part of multiple, different, sometimes even contradictory cultural groups or communities: through our families, we might be connected to a specific ethnic or racial community; our religion might connect us to another community; the music we listen to might connect us to another group; sports activities might connect us to yet another community. This assignment asks you to choose one of these groups or communities to which you belong and to investigate it.
You will investigate this group or community in order to inform others about what these cultural phenomena suggest about the community and its values, beliefs, and practices. This will give you and your readers greater insight into how the group or community understands and defines its own identity. As an insider, you may think you already know your community well. However, one of the goals of the project is to challenge your own preconceptions and reflect more deeply on what defines this group. To this end, you will engage in research as a participant-observer, meaning you will engage in primary research—interviews, observations, and field notes—to understand this cultural phenomenon from the inside out.
REQUIREMENTS AND DELIVERABLES
1. In your essay, you should include a narrative structure that tells the story of how you conducted your research.
2. You should summarize, explain, and discuss the results of your close, detailed observations and field notes in a way that is understandable to your readers.
3. You should also summarize, explain, and discuss the results of your interview(s).
4. Drawing upon your observations, field notes, and interview materials, your essay should present your reflections and insights on the community or group you have researched. Your primary insight should derive from your synthesis of the data you have accumulated: your observations, field notes, and interview materials. You should discuss this material at length, explaining how it supports or frames your insight, what it suggests about the role of specific beliefs, values, and practices in defining the community, and drawing conclusions about why and how the community defines itself.
5. Your essay should be organized in such a way that a reader can follow your thinking and reasoning from paragraph to paragraph and within each paragraph. Your primary insight should help to structure the essay for the reader.
6. You should include 2-3 multimodal elements such as photographs (of the people, sites, activities, and artifacts that you have researched), hyperlinks to relevant materials, clips of audio or video from recorded interviews, and so forth. You must make sure that your reader understands why you are including these elements and why including them enriches your piece of writing. Consider what media beyond text might reinforce your main idea to readers, convey in another way the significance of your autoethnography, and/or appeal to your readers from a different register.
7. Your completed essay should have a title, be approximately 1700 words in length, and be formatted to adhere to the MLA or APA style guide.
PROJECT SUBMISSION
- Rough Draft: Your rough draft will be submitted for peer review and to your e-portfolio.
- Revised Draft: Your revised draft should be uploaded to your e-portfolio.
TIPS
- Get started early.
- Review this week’s materials and discussions.
- Set a writing/research schedule and stick to it.
***NOTE: By clicking Submit, I certify that I have SECURED PERMISSION to use and post the results of my interviews. I also certify that I have received and retained signatures (electronic or physical) from any and all interviewees on the interview consent form provided in the ENG101 GFA course.***
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