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Week 10
Writing the Ethnographic Report

Methodologies: Evaluations

Focus Groups

Ethnography

Preparations
 Writing the qualitative report

Using verbatim quotes in the report: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/pdf/verbquotresearch.pdf (p. 8-17)

Balancing description and interpretation (often called “discussion”): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.101.5679&rep=rep1&type=pdf

 

Examples retrieved mostly from Google Scholar using key words “ethnographic report” + “slum” or “informal settlement”)

 

Write-up example 1: Research into using short breaks when working with disabled kids

https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/DCSF-RR221.pdf

Write-up example 2: Mobile phone stores in Indian slum

http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/viewFile/563/249

Write up example 3: Leadership in a Bangkok slum

http://www.agseminary.edu/syllabi/dmiss/2009/johnson_thesis.pdf

Write-up example #4: Quality of water in Kenyan slum

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11524-007-9199-x?LI=true#page-1

Write up example #5: Health inequality in a South African slum

http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/RREPORT_VOL106_HUNTER.pdf

Write up example #6: Health seeking behavior among women in a Pakistani slum

http://www.ghdonline.org/uploads/261.pdf

 

Annotated Bibliography

http://www.apu.edu/live_data/files/288/annotated_bibliographies.pdf

Face to Face Discussion

Writing Process

Join us  to look ahead at the Writing Process, with a one page summary of one of the above.

Continue to expand your project plan into a full thesis proposal for next week. 
Review in detail the requirements in the Project Proposal Document and project proposal ppt.  Identify chapter topics and subtopics; define your interview questions in greater detail; refine your timeline etc.

Those doing the thesis option.  Review the thesis binding process.  Submit the thesis request.    APU Catalogue copy 2013-14   Janice Baskin will supervise the publishing process.  Research Librarian. Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3274  Email: jbaskin@apu.edu

Methodologies

Evaluations

Focus Groups

Ethnography

Assignments Go to Assignments in the Course Links navigation menu and select Project 4 by the end of week #11. Submit as directed.
 
Online Forum Discussion Select Forums from the Course Links navigation menu and then topic 5: Literature Review. Engage across weeks 10, 11, and 12 as directed.