Organizing and Analyzing Data

Discourse community ethnography

Which characteristics have scholars focused on?

Swales Expertise, lexis

Mirabelli Genre, expertise

Wardle Genre, participation, intercommunication

Student paper Expertise, genres, lexis, intercommunication

Which characteristics will you focus on?

Goals Intercommunication Participation Lexis Genres Expertise

(step 2 on assignment sheet)

Which characteristics will you focus on?

Trade data with a partner. Discuss: which of the six characteristics

stand out to you as most interesting in your partner’s data? Why?

Write: which of the six characteristics stand out to you as most interesting in your own data? Why?

What are the scholars’ arguments?

SwalesDefining discourse communities

MirabelliMultiliteracies, defying stereotypes

WardleEnculturation, identity, authority,

modes of belonging

Let’s make an argument…again!

Trade data with a partner. Look for:

Conflicts Participants with difficulties Authority Stereotypes Multiliteracies Identity Modes of belonging Etc.

Let’s make an argument…again!

Write: what aspect of your partner’s data seems most interesting to you?

Discuss with your partner.

Let’s make an argument…again!

Write a tentative thesis statement. Share with the class.

DraftingStart drafting your methodology

section.What do you need to include?

ObservationsInterviewsCollecting texts

Structure IMRD Introduction

Jot down the names of the scholars you will refer to.

MethodologyJot down what methods you will need

to describe.

Structure IMRDResults/Discussion

Decide what organization will best suit your argument. By Swales’s characteristicsBy questions (see Wardle)By community-specific topics (see

Mirabelli)Share.