research examples

This weeks reading were on other examples by some past students.The examples of their website with the final research project helps in different ways.the examples first of all help us in our organization skills, with this we have an idea as to how to go about putting together the final project and giving it a meaningful flow. The examples secondly also aid us in a way that we are able to learn to put the information we have from our previous essays together,connecting with each other and not just thrown all over the place in the essay. There were different ways the essays were broken down in the examples. Some of them were in sub titles, others in a narrative form and others also in journal forms as well.

bowling alley

The bowling alley's final project brings together the whole research in one piece with a better meaning and understanding to it.the piece is put together by the days she went to observe as well as her observations in subtopics. One way to organize a long research is either by the days or by activities or like journals or subtopics. She has hers in subtopics making it easier to understand and with a really good organization. the bowling alley is a family  business owned where people come together to have fun and also to compete with each other.The writer also adds a little history or background information to the paper to give the reader a little information before going into the actual project. She also explains how people interact with her site as well as how she also has some childhood connection to the alley. The paper is well organized and has all the in depth definition of what an ethnography is and is a perfect example of what our overall piece should look like. I also love the titles she had for her subtopics especially "my life in rented shoes","who would have thought" and the best of all "come together", which is basically the theme of the paper because the alley is where all families come together to spend time with each other and have fun.

Interview

Interviewing  involves certain steps that make the interviewer have really good and concrete ideas from the person being interviewed.When interviewing someone you should have a flexible schedule so as to be able to come back if there is the need to. People who do not have flexible schedule end up looking at their watches during the interview to make sure they are on top of time, but you should not have a limit to an interview because you never know how much information the person being interviewed is wiling to give out and if he or she would be able to meet up with u again some other time to finish up. You need to also dress appropriately for the occasion and not shabby like you don't care about it and also look interested and look the person being interviewed in the eye to show interest and good listening skills. When interviewing, you should make sure you are at a good location to not have all these distractions so you can focus on each other. Also one major thing about interviewing is the kind of questions you ask. don't ask closed ended questions like "do you have a dog"? but rather open ended questions like "how did you feel when you first found your dog"? this allows the interviewee to express him or herself in a complete sentence and not a short phrase like yes or no. after the interview you have to make sure you say thank you to show appreciation to the interviewee for spending time or taking time off his or her busy schedule to meet up with you for the interview.
   When done with the interview and you putting it in your work don't forget to put it in quotation marks to show its not your words but that of someone else.