The Informant's From Wardle
The writings I’ve worked on for the Research Problem have helped me towards achieving course learning outcome number 1: “Produce writing that demonstrates your ability to identify, describe, and analyze various occasions for writing, genres, conventions, and audiences in your discipline or profession from a rhetorical perspective.”
From Merriam, I learned the ideal way to record any interview. This method includes a combination of utilizing tape-like hardware and writing down notes, which allows verbatim transcription of the interviewee’s responses via the tape like hardware and notation about the interviewee’s tone, pacing and the reactions of the interviewee to questions. Although, the qualitative data obtained can be influenced by the “informant’s …show more content…
Keeping Wardle’s argument in mind, individuals who hold expert knowledge and are expert members of my discourse community, i.e. not novices, were selected. Wardle defines authority as “an intangible quality granted to persons through institutions, which renders their pronouncements as accepted…but which must be maintained through individuals’ speech and actions” (Wardle 5). I selected experts who have authority in my discourse community; those who represent the identity of said discourse community. For these reasons, I chose to interview Dr. Gregory Adami and Dr. Wolfgang …show more content…
Merriam says that the goal of data analysis is to make meaning and sense out of the complex data. Ultimately, the data analysis should bring the researcher the findings, i.e. the answers to research questions, via a step wise process used in the coding process (Merriam 177). I used this process of analytical coding, category construction, category naming and organization to codes for my Data collection report and genre analysis. The data filed under these different codes gives answers to research questions for my extended writing project.
The aforementioned learnings and accomplishments are vital to my achievement of learning outcome number 2. I am most proud of my ability to demonstrate, through the writings I’ve worked on in the Data Collection Report, understanding of my discourse community’s genres, using information interesting to the writing studies scholarship. I would like to improve on communicating my message better in my writing. This improvement can be easily achieved through utilizing a simpler vocabulary, using singular reasoning and applying a greater attention to detail with my writing structure for each
From Merriam, I learned the ideal way to record any interview. This method includes a combination of utilizing tape-like hardware and writing down notes, which allows verbatim transcription of the interviewee’s responses via the tape like hardware and notation about the interviewee’s tone, pacing and the reactions of the interviewee to questions. Although, the qualitative data obtained can be influenced by the “informant’s …show more content…
Keeping Wardle’s argument in mind, individuals who hold expert knowledge and are expert members of my discourse community, i.e. not novices, were selected. Wardle defines authority as “an intangible quality granted to persons through institutions, which renders their pronouncements as accepted…but which must be maintained through individuals’ speech and actions” (Wardle 5). I selected experts who have authority in my discourse community; those who represent the identity of said discourse community. For these reasons, I chose to interview Dr. Gregory Adami and Dr. Wolfgang …show more content…
Merriam says that the goal of data analysis is to make meaning and sense out of the complex data. Ultimately, the data analysis should bring the researcher the findings, i.e. the answers to research questions, via a step wise process used in the coding process (Merriam 177). I used this process of analytical coding, category construction, category naming and organization to codes for my Data collection report and genre analysis. The data filed under these different codes gives answers to research questions for my extended writing project.
The aforementioned learnings and accomplishments are vital to my achievement of learning outcome number 2. I am most proud of my ability to demonstrate, through the writings I’ve worked on in the Data Collection Report, understanding of my discourse community’s genres, using information interesting to the writing studies scholarship. I would like to improve on communicating my message better in my writing. This improvement can be easily achieved through utilizing a simpler vocabulary, using singular reasoning and applying a greater attention to detail with my writing structure for each