Friday, April 15, 2011

Reading for 4/15

In the article, From Down Draft to Up Draft, it talks about having a pile of data and knowing where to go from there. We have compiled loads of data together and we're finalizing our "field study." It talks about the terms stepping in and stepping out, which means negotiating between your intimate view and a cool assessment of it. It's basically saying to construct "I" correctly with the other voices in your story. Using the word draft, to us, means a quickly written paper that needs to be edited. Drafting means something different to each writer. "Just as fieldworkers establish various habits for organizing info during data collection, so do writers develop successful drafting habits."

Revising for a Reader : There are many lessons I took out of this specific article, especially when it comes to revision because it's something I need to work on. " Revision is not a failure, but an opportunity. It is an essential part of the process of thinking that produces a series of drafts that clarify and communicate significant meaning to a reader." Revision is in fact a second chance to review your fieldwork and make the Ethnography even better. It's key to look over your facts and evidence you have at your site and revise what interviews you have made as well as info you have with the people and site itself. " Don't look for errors, look for what works."

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