Analysis of Ethnographic Event #4

Samantha N. Jaleel T. Carolina V.

What forms seemed most effective for each of the 4 different kinds of notes?

Jotting
·         Key words (laughed, shake hands, movie theater, commuting, praxis)
·         Details (Marc likes Kean, Emily commutes to Kean)
·         Names (Marc, Emily, Courtney, Sabrina)
·         One word answers (Paramus, Hillside, Garden State Plaza, Disney World)

Head Notes

·         Looking back and expanding the information under jotting (Class laughed when Professor interrupted)
·         Adding each key word to a sentence (I don’t want to talk about the praxis anymore)

Things I remember

·         Paragraph form (People were still talking even though we were instructed to go back to our seats)
·         Adding more information between each key word sentence (Everyone had different questions to ask)
·         Allows the passage to become readable

Observation

·         Giving you the opportunity to add what you need to conclude your assignment (The conversations were very genuine which made it easy to keep the conversation going.)
·         In a paragraph form

What was the purpose for each form? 

Jotting – are intended to help us remember things

·         Is to quickly take notes
·         Quickly observe
·         Key Words
·         Help remember what you quickly wrote down

Head Notes – coding and memoing

·         Expanding out the information of jotting
·         Fluffing the sentences to make more of a story
·         Combining ideas and words to make complete sentences

Things I remember later - Look at key words from jotting and be able to come up non-essential detail

·         Refresh your memory
·         Allowing you to already pick out key points and notice small detail

 Observations – provides detailed information about the analysis

·         Wrap up entire Ethnographical Research -Concluding
·         Able to give final thoughts

And which kinds of notes best met that purpose?

We believe the person who was number 4 followed all these directions correctly

Jotting

·         Used one or two key words (Hillside, Laughed, Graduating soon)
·         Names (Sabrina, Emily, Marc)
·         Movements (shake, laugh)
·         Places (Garden State Plaza, Hillside, Disney World)
·         Tangible objects (Hands)
·         Conversational rule (asked Courtney where she lived)
·         Paid attention outside the box (Laughing, English Majors)

Head Notes

·         Expanded the key words to one full sentence (Angie lives where my dad works)

·         Talked about feelings (What makes me happy)

·         Quoted other peoples conversations (My most favorite place to be on earth is on the beach)

Things I remember

·         Did not use paragraph

·         Used one sentence form to complete her ideas (Sabrina and Marc were writing their notes on their phones)

·         Did not fluff sentences or make them illegible (Everyone had different questions to ask)

·         Gave more information about the environment and the people in the classroom (The first three people I spoke to were already sitting in my row)

Observations

·         Chronological order

·         Paragraph form

·         Took all information and made it into a story

·         Also gave her opinion on how the activity worked out well for them (I think this activity worked really well cause we were able to see what it is like to take field notes as well as being able to get to know our classmates a little better)