Final Week of Class!

As we wrap up our semester for my writing 102 class I am finishing up my ethnography project. It has been really interesting to see it all come together and learn how to make it flow as an entire paper. I am really hoping to get it all done by the weekend. This week we looked over final websites. Mine is the same basic principle as the first half of the semesters website, I just added new pages for the new information I did this half of the semester. I am really excited to finish up school and relax. This week has been pretty stressful and I'm glad its done with. Hopefully I didn't forget to do anything. 

            Planet Fitness was a really interesting site and I'm glad I chose it. It really has some fascinating people that go in there and it is a very low-stressed relaxed environment. This is to me the conclusion I came up with. That Planet Fitness is the place to go if you want to workout but not worry about how much exercising you're actually doing. You just go there for whatever reason you want and don't have to worry about the other people around you because most of them are there for the same reason.

Final Ethnography Project

This week we were discussing our final step to our ethnography project.  We read our professors final draft back when she did this very project. It helped me to see what I should include in mine and how to shape it to fit the goal of the entire assignment. I am excited to see how it turns out and to take on with me the ways to research something and write a first hand experience from it.

Interview readings from class this week.

The readings this week got me to thinking about the interview portion of our project. I'm actually going to have to make myself visible to the people at Planet Fitness and ask them questions. The readings really helped show me what questions I should ask and even different types of questions. I never thought of asking questions as being open or closed. I always just thought of them as well questions in general and just talking. Not only do we have to ask questions but also actively participate in the conversation and listen! This is something I struggle with because I have a really short attention span, so bringing this to my attention will help try to focus more because its important that I do. Paul Russ' project really showed a good example of how to hold a good interview and is what I want my interviews to be like. On a side note I was also interested on how people are surviving with AIDS which is what Paul wrote about.  And as for the last reading by Jennette Edwards was really interesting to read and how to get a history of someone orally. I am looking  forward to starting the interview portion of my project.