English 104: Composition Research
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I.Objectives
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Develop a profound understanding of qualitative research design
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Become proficient at analyzing qualitative data
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Develop the ability to see beyond received understanding of how a certain process is supposed to work, what it is supposed to mean, and learn about the meaning that its participants ascribe to it.
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Use a variety of strategies to gather and organize information appropriate for the context and persuasive to the intended audience
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Collect, analyze, and organize research information in verbally and visually compelling ways.
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Employ format, syntax, punctuation, and spelling in an appropriate and a stylistically sophisticated manner
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II.Description
You will synthesize your fieldwork and integrate your research findings into a 8 to 12 pages. Shall be written using all the writings and research you have completed during the term. You will attempt to answer your research questions, and in the process, you will speak to the questions that have guided your fieldwork, such as “What’s the story?” and “Where’s the culture?” You will reevaluate your fieldwork descriptions, interpretations, and analysis. You will represent the subculture in which you have become a participant-observer and the informants you have come to know. The Ethnographic will assess any differences or similarities between researched materials and collected data. Using information collected throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to suggest what might be causing differences of opinion about the subculture.
