2.9 Summing up Chapter 1 & data collection methods for autoethnographic projects

You have now successfully completed Chapter 1!  After reviewing Porter, we checked out the :"what you should get out of this chapter" list and made sure you hit the expectations.  You definitely did.  You understand rhetorical situations, how readers construct meanings, and we explored the idea of both knowledge and plagiarism as constructs.

Go back over the vocabulary one more time - and think about how it applies to your reading and writing practices and aspirations.

Practices for gathering the data for your autoethnography
The second part of class was spent "practicing" using track changes & listening to a sample sound file for your project.  The directions for creating your data, along with a sample portfolio  (the sample data is at the link for the autoethnography), are posted to the right under Assignments.

For next class:

Read: Perl + intro to Ch 2 (170-173)