Ethnography Project Final Blog Post

Our ethnography project came together well, even though it did not start off as easily.  Starting my ethnography project and trying to find something to write about was not a simple task.  I had the building that I planned on talking about, but I just had no way of relating it to literacy underlife.  After our group came upon the topic of architecture everything seemed to fall into place from there. 

 

 

In this picture you can see my original connection between architecture and literacy.  I used Robinson Hall very heavily to emphasize my point.  However, my focus on Robinson Hall in specific did not last all too long.  I then began to expand my focus points while working with my group.

Revising my work however was a completely different story.  After doing my literacy narrative, revising was not as bad, simply because I now know exactly what it was.  The hardest part in revising my ethnography project would be from broadening my points from Robinson Hall specifically, to all academic buildings on campus.  I think this was a special kind of revision because it didn't focus on actual writing, but rather on changing my work to fit my groups progression, but revision nonetheless.

Working in a group seemed to flow a lot smoother for this project than just about any other project that I have worked on.  My group seemed to pretty much just understand everything that needed to be done.  We never really had any problems with not completing any assignments involved in completing our ethnography project.  I know we aren't supposed to say that everything was peachy clean, but when it comes to working in this group, honestly it was!

However, creating an untraditional piece was not easy at all.  It's so hard to kind of go against everything that we've been taught going through school.  I also think this ethnography project was necessary because it helped us to see that our writings and meanings are created by us.  We're so used to doing things by the book that we forget to add our own creativity and letting it shine through in our writing.

Overall, I think the ethnography project was important for our growth in writing.  It helped us to see that we can't always look for basic meanings that are given to us, but we have to create our own.  I think that is exactly what we needed to learn in our freshmen year of college for many of us.

This picture is my portion of our ethnography project in writing.