Uses for Journal Keeping: An Ethnography of Writing in a University Science Class

by Anne C. Johnstone and Barbara Johnstone

Book Overview

This text reports on an ethnographic study of journal-keeping in a university science class. The author spent a summer semester attending a general education class in geology as a participant observer, took extensive notes, interviewed class members and the professor, and analyzed journal entries and other documents related to the class. She provides an example of ethnographic methods to be of use to other composition researchers, especially in her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567500528
• ISBN13: 9781567500523
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"