3.6 Getting ready to analyze your transcript

So, once again, I assigned a reading that we did not get to in class.  Don't worry though, we will get to it.

In class today we actually worked through (applied) moves/materials from the Approaches to analyzing your transcript reading.  You will use these moves (and you might want to look back through this reading) as you work on analyzing the language in your transcript for Blog 13: Analyze stories/excerpts from your transcript.

We took a close look at language in the Unedited transcript. In particular, we paid attention to:
pronouns L used to represent her experience;

• whether she used active or passive verb constructions; words like so, cause, then which indicated causality and sequence; 
• moves/language choices L made to distance herself from the event (I remember. . . or other moves to place the story in the past or as someone else's experience such as using you to generalize the experience); 
• the level of organization/structure in the story (the ordered sequence of events in the first story we analyze, versus the all at once series of events without sequencing words like first, then, or so in the story about "no friends")
• relationships to cultural Conversatins/stories = the American Dream, "success" stories; assumptions about testing; the way educational institutions don't generally consider students social needs (friends/comfort zone) as integral to their academic needs

First we picked out a story kind of randomly and marked it up.  Then we picked out another one.  At this point, if you were doing the Blog 14, you would have started to look for "related" stories (look in Approaches for "strategies for selecting story sets) - a set of stories with a common theme or "move" that you might use as the focus for your writing.

We spent the last part of class thinking about how to come up with a focus for the short analysis paper that would connect to the the language analysis of the unedited transcript.  We went back and looked at the assignment sheet, noticed that we needed to make some connections to "cultural stories" - and you took it from there.  Looked to me like you are well on the road to using language analysis in your discussion of your transcripts.

SO

This is the series of assignments.

For Tuesday, 3.18

Review the course blog/readings -  do any reading you need to do to analyze the language in your transcript.

Blog 12: post your transcript

For Thursday, 3.20

Review the course blog/readings -  do any reading you need to do to analyze the language in your transcript.

Blog 13: Analyze stories/excerpts from your transcript.  Select and post sections of your interview transcript which you might use to make a point in your essay. (you might need to listen to your recording to fill in words/make sure you have them right for these stories).   In this post, include:

1. the story/section  from your transcript = with your mark up like we did in class
2. some writing about the way language is used, the story features, or the discourses (stereotypes, cultural stories) the excerpt illustrates or connects to
3. a statement of what you might use the excerpt to "show" with respect to a focus of your paper.

You should pick out at least 3 excerpts from your transcript and do some analysis for each one.


***** I will give you feedback on blogs 12 & 13 by class 3.25.

For class Tuesday, 3. 25
Blog 14:  Do some more writing about what you will use as a focus for the short analysis project, and how the different excerpts with support/connect to that focus.  If you are stuck - ask questions/give me a hint about what kind of feedback you want as help.

Have a great spring break!   See you in two weeks.  I will be available by email if you get stuck