12.6 Workshop

Note: If you have not sent your raw data/transcript = send it to the course email as an attachment as soon as it is available.  I will need to look at your data in order to be able to respond to your presentation.  Your research essay must be based on an anlysis of your data.

You signed up for your presentation days, and the schedule is as follows.  For the points you need to cover during the presentation, see the previous post.
Tuesday, 12.11: Sara, Andrea, Genera, Liana
Thursday 12.13: Tshandi, Kelsee, Kevin, Shana
Tuesday, 12.18: Valerie, Rachel, Josh, Nahimot, Brigit



Course assessment:  As I explained in class, the rubric (below the presentation points) is to assess how well the course is doing in terms of preparing you to talk about your ideas in relationship to larger issues presented by other researchers or by the culture at large.

Workshop:  You spent the rest of class working on your research essay.  Discussion of the objectives and what you are having trouble with posted on your blogs suggested that focus and organization for the presentation of your data were the big issues, so our workshop focused on that.

To work on focus and organization, you did the following.
Develop a list of what you saw in your data (what it shows)
Rank the points in the list by their relative importance
Choose 3-5 points that are "the most" important, and that fit togehter
Go back to your data and choose strong examples (passages from your transcripts with codes/categories + patterns) that illustrate your points.

After you wrote up these general observations - you talked in groups to "test" your plan.

For next class:
Presentations!
Blog 25: Post your draft so far essay.

I will be responding to Blogs 21-24 by Tuesday so you will have some feedback to go on.