Ethnography Assignment Links

Classroom Handouts/Presentations

· Ethnography Assignment handout

· Possible  subcultures  to choose from—don’t limit yourselves to just these

· How to Tell if it’s a subculture

· Choosing a Field Site

· 3 categories of ethnography—realist, confessional, impressionistic

· 3 ways to structure your ethnographic essay—IMRAD, Q&A, Narrative

· Participant-Observation continuum

· What to observe

· Taking fieldnotes

· Field Notes

· Interview advice from experts

· What to ask in interviews

· Ethnography Terms to Know

· Online Survey Sites

· Incorporating Sources into your Ethnography—APA style

· 2 Examples of Incorporated Sources

Helpful Web Sites

· Fieldworkng 104—these are more in the form of the final project but are ethnographies

· Papers from a course called “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games."

· Website for textbook called “fieldworking” includes 7 student examples

· Fieldworking Online

· Sample--Performing Gender: Metro Detroit Drag King Culture

· -->Research Proposal Samples (no, you don’t have to do a research proposal for this assignment, but looking at these will probably help you see how others have planned similar assignments)

· Another set of assignment guidelines

· Ethnography Assignment guidelines from an Illinois State English instructor (same length required as ours!)