4.17 Workshop: schedule for presentations

Regarding posts to the blog:  If you have confidentiality issues or choose not to post your draft writing to the blog, post it as LastnameDataAnalysis, on the 5002transcripts site(I can't believe I got the wrong course number, but oh well).  That way it will ONLY be available to our class. 

Blog (or post to the transcript site): your for your presentation on your project so far.

Analytic approach:We started class by discussing an approach for analyzing your data where you begin by stating your question (writing into it) and look through the data in some depth, with your question in mind.  Then:

1. Identify a section of text (gut choice) that works as data to explore your question
2. ANALYZE that section of data in terms of:

• Content – what does the text say?

• Positioning: narrator's relationship to content, other speakers, other stories + context

• Language choices/structures

• Any critical lens from any of the other theorists

3. State what your anlaysis suggests with respect to your focus/research question (write this out in some detail)
4.. Go back to the your transcript as a whole and looke for text that has "features" or other examples of what you found from your anlaysis.5. Choose another section of text and repeat 2-4.

 

Presentations:  You signed up for presentations as follows:

April 14: Robyn, Luis, Heather, Maria, Mary

 May 1: Heidi; Nikki; (Maria, Luis Maria); Wayne, Andre

 

For the content of your presentation (post your writing so far where we can open it & follow along):

State your focus: what are your research questions?  What do you see in your data?

Discuss why your connection to writing studies (briefly)

Discuss your methods/critical lens +mention lit that presents those methods

Talk through some of the examples/stories you use to make the points for your focus (we can definitely be of some help in terms of developing/deepening analysis) + be clear on the point each discussion makes with respect to your focus

Most important: give us a heads up re what kind of feedback you want
 

We also discussed the assignment sheet, and the overall form for the paper.

Intro=> states question + problem it addresses (importance)

Methods= how you will analyze your data; methods you will use + NAMES you give to what is going on in your data

Present data: what's going on in data (use your NAMES for what is going on in your data)

Discuss data: say what data means/implies regarding focus; what does this text say/show with respect to my question?

Reflect/conclude