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August 29, 2006
tracks in the rain (cuz it's too early for snow)
my Right This Minute & Subject to Plenty of Potential Change hypothesis (b/c kvale says i have to have one):
experienced & inexperienced academic writers use sources differently (with differing levels of canonical acceptability/appropriateness) b/c they have fundamentally different sense of the purpose & value of including the works/words/ideas of others in their writing
plus other methodologically-proximal thinking: 10-15 is avg # of interviewees (kvale 102); 9-12? 3-4 of each frosh, srs or MA 1st years, & published/ing faculty? B says 1 or 2 categories only: frosh & grads 2-3 years in? fac. seems too specialized to pair reasonably w/freshman (most of whom aren't going career-academic--will we be able to learn things that'll reasonably serve the population by that comparison?)
can i collect only frosh who think they want to stay in academia? (yes, but will that defeat the purpose--it'll only be informative then about teaching academic writing to lifetime academics, when our job is to teach it to everybody just passing through)
transcription/recording: can i do this side-by-side w/writers at a shared computer screen, adding comment-bubbles as transcription of conversations? test this!
p. 125 in kvale: from spradley ("an open phenomenological approach to learning from the interviewee is well expressed by")
i want to understand the world from your point of view. i want to know what you know in the way you know it. i want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. will you become my teacher and help me understand? (34)
Posted by ttobryan at August 29, 2006 09:34 PM