Preparation for Thursday: Focus, Thesis, Organization

Hi, everyone.

After last week's library session on web communities as archives, Lou Malcomb and Emily Okada said it was exciting to see you moving forward with your issues. I tend to agree, especially as some of you are making real breakthroughs in either noticing or articulating a nuance that can powerfully inform your final project.

For Thursday's class (3/31) -- which is dedicated to focus, thesis, and organization of the ethnographic essay -- I need you to do the following to prepare:

1) As you read through our final set of articles (Blume, Battistoni, and Magalhaes), be on the lookout for one or more of their concepts that could help to ground your own projects, or that you think would inform your projects in a significant way. Our class discussion may follow what we did near the beginning of the semester when we put three service-learning articles into conversation, so please bring the readings to class in print or digital form.

2) Please spend some time filling out the large triangulation heuristic in as much detail as you can. We will spend some time workshopping them in class, so any opportunity you have to start considering a triangulated response to your issue will only serve to get you ahead.

Many thanks,
Professor Graban