01:920:311 Lecture 11: Ethnography (Continued)
7 Nov 2018
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If someone tells you something happened, don"t write that it happened, write that you were told it happened: don"t comment preemptively, don"t impute emotions/motives, don"t make guesses about internal emotions or motives. If someone appears to be angry it would be better what they are saying or doing rather than saying they are angry: eg. Raising their voice, shouting, turning red: show rather than tell, gives you opportunity to see if you were wrong may be someone who seemed angry to you was just overly exited. If you have insights write them but in such a way that you marked off: description vs analysis of something, parentheses on fieldnotes. Tips for descriptions: concrete details and sensory imagery rather than abstract generalizations and evaluative labels. Tips for dialogue: only things quoted word-for-word (i. e. recorded in jottings) should be placed inside quotation marks; otherwise, leave out quotation marks and treat statements as paraphrases rather than quotes.
