Annotation #6

Summary: In the article, the author introduces us to ethnography, which is the study of people and cultures. The author feels it should be included in our writing  and bring evidence into the writing on how a student used this to learn about a specific community.  The author also mention how this student interviewed several people and notice how by working, the community has united and they al get along. Another thing that the article mentions is how young writer's can figure out a way on what to write about as majority of them struggle. The author feels that ethnography will help us learn more about people and their cultures and realize that we all come from different places.

Quotes:
1. "Finally, our experiences with unfamiliar workplaces give us a valuable perspective on the classroom as our workplace, and also, in a slightly different way, the workplace of our student." (79) I feel that being in a environment helps us analyze new things and the people around us.

 

2. "Interviews would be key, not only as sources for language study, but as immediate and first-hand accounts of island life." (81) Interviewing people can help you learn about where they come from and their perspective of where they are from and how life is like.

 

3. "I am convinced that for the vast majority of freshmen, this does not have to be the early semester scenario." (82) The author knows that the freshmen's aren't fully capable of writing  well written paper and using ethnography in it.

 

Questions: 
1.How can ethnography help improve a writer's paper?
2. How can writer's who struggle with arguing points can find a way to improve themselves?