Assignment:
1. Choose a journal article that reports a qualitative study. Reflect upon how authority is established in the article.
• What conventions of social science writing are used?
• What do you learn about the researcher through the article?
• What do you learn about the researcher's relationship to research participants?
2. Explore some aspect of your research topic by writing a short autoethnography in which you use dramatic recall and images from your own life to situate your research in the personal and the social. Reflect upon what you learned about your topic and your research participants.
Assignment Specifics:
• Student will write a 5 to 7 page paper
• Citation of a journal article that reports a qualitative study
• Citations from any of the required reading/presentations from the assigned module/week
• APA format