Week 14 - Posting 14

For this week, I'd like to give you folks the opportunity to do some more pre-writing for your portfolio reflections. So, pick ONE of the following questions to answer: What strategies did you develop to analyze the data for your mini-ethnography? What is your favorite piece of data (or data source) and why? (i.e. people you interviewed, observations you made, academic sources you read, etc). What do you feel is the best piece of writing you've done in the class (Exploring Subcultures, Annotated Bibliography, Research Proposal w/Literature Review, or Mini-Ethnography) and why?

For this blog posting, I've chosen to answer the second question that being -- what is your favorite piece of data and why. To answer this question, I would honestly have to say my interviews. I loved hearing feedback from the other girls in my sorority and what they had to say about it. It was really interesting to get their inside view because you don't really know what another person is thinking or feeling without truly asking. Everyone's got a past, everyone's got a story, therefore it's important to look inside and ask what a person really feels about a certain situation. Without my interviews, I don't think my paper would be as heartfelt as it will turn out. I believe this because I've gotten the inside view of my sisters in Chi Omega and their thoughts, not just my own thoughts. Because of this, my paper and my personal knowledge about my subculture will change drastically.