1. Whose views of this culture am I representing – mine, my informants’, or background information?
I feel as though throughout most of my paper, I am telling the story as to what I have observed and found out about this subculture. While still adding what insiders think and feel, what the true history of Spectrum is, and fun facts about the subgroup, I feel as though my voice is the guiding source throughout the whole paper.
2. How do I organize data?
I am using subheadings. This not only helps my reader stay interested but also helps me think of things/events in terms of what, where, when, who etc. I include interviews to get insider’s views and I feel as though I do this in a sort of neutral manner (instead of taking sides).
3. How am I representing my informants?
I use a lot of information from the internet site that Spectrum actually made. This is because this site is the closest thing I have to being an insider. I have also put in other things from other sources but they are mostly to confirm credibility and site sources the Spectrum students also use.
4. What sense of place am I offering?
I talk about two places in my paper: the meeting place and the place for the drag show. I feel as though these are the two main locations for the group so I treated them as such.
5. What assumptions, positions, and tensions so I bring to my interpretations?
Mostly, these are from outsiders having assumptions, positions, and tensions with insiders of Spectrum. I try my best to again be neutral when relating this information but I admit that sometimes it is hard when it is the outsiders verbally and physically abusing insiders.
6. Would I offer my reader the same information if I presented it a different way?
I feel as though the same information would eventually get across but my reader would get more bored if I presented it in a different way. For example, if I did not use subheadings, I feel as though my reader would often daydream and not really follow what I was saying as well.
I feel as though throughout most of my paper, I am telling the story as to what I have observed and found out about this subculture. While still adding what insiders think and feel, what the true history of Spectrum is, and fun facts about the subgroup, I feel as though my voice is the guiding source throughout the whole paper.
2. How do I organize data?
I am using subheadings. This not only helps my reader stay interested but also helps me think of things/events in terms of what, where, when, who etc. I include interviews to get insider’s views and I feel as though I do this in a sort of neutral manner (instead of taking sides).
3. How am I representing my informants?
I use a lot of information from the internet site that Spectrum actually made. This is because this site is the closest thing I have to being an insider. I have also put in other things from other sources but they are mostly to confirm credibility and site sources the Spectrum students also use.
4. What sense of place am I offering?
I talk about two places in my paper: the meeting place and the place for the drag show. I feel as though these are the two main locations for the group so I treated them as such.
5. What assumptions, positions, and tensions so I bring to my interpretations?
Mostly, these are from outsiders having assumptions, positions, and tensions with insiders of Spectrum. I try my best to again be neutral when relating this information but I admit that sometimes it is hard when it is the outsiders verbally and physically abusing insiders.
6. Would I offer my reader the same information if I presented it a different way?
I feel as though the same information would eventually get across but my reader would get more bored if I presented it in a different way. For example, if I did not use subheadings, I feel as though my reader would often daydream and not really follow what I was saying as well.
-Julia St. John
Just by reading this, it sounds like you have written a good paper. I would love to read your paper because I am not aware of what Spectrum is all about, really.
ReplyDelete- Theresa Pickerrell