BA #7 - Open Post

This assignment should be posted to your blog by 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, 4/7/11.

Purpose and Context

So far this semester, you have developed and practiced different methodologies for community research and writing on this blog. You have put two or more sources into conversation with each other in order to self-position or construct a definition of "civic engagement," you have composed a verbal portrait of an artifact or manipulated images and justified those manipulations, you have written a focused reflection on your fieldnotes, and you have read and discussed two research sources perspectivally and multivocally. For this final extra-credit Blogging Assignment, I invite you to write an "open" post, which is to say, you may decide what your ethnographic portfolio needs in order to seem "complete" to your readers.

The Assignment

Decide on any of the methodologies listed above (and represented in Blogging Assignments 1-6) and compose an additional post for your portfolio.

Evaluation Criteria

This assignment will be evaluated according to the "plus" system discussed on page 4 of our syllabus. Depending upon the methodology you choose, I will follow the evaluation criteria from earlier posts:

• "analysis or synthesis" - BA #1
• "verbal snapshot" - BA #2
• "verbal portrait of an artifact" or "image manipulations" - BA #3
• "fieldnotes reflection" - BA #4/6
• "critical synthesis of sources" - BA #5