Wheatley
Immersion Essay Transformed- Essay # 5
ENG 101
PRESENTATION COMPONENT (100 pts.)
PURPOSE
The purpose of this presentation is for you to present your findings from your immersion essay in front of a real audience.
DIGITIAL ASSIGNMENT
You will present your work via an oral Prezi presentation (Prezi.com) that is a collage of captioned images (pictures
and/or photos) and videos of things, faces, places, and artifacts (things that people in this immersion assignment routinely
make, talk about, or use) that illustrate your immersion and the answer to your thesis/news peg. Post your presentation
link to your Blog at least an hour before it’s due.
SPECIFICATIONS
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Introduce yourself
Identify your research question AND answer
Give your Prezi, describing the images and videos, showing how your research helped you arrive at the answer to
your question
RHETORICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Purpose:
Form:
Audience:
Point of View:
LOGISTICS
Due date: 101-200 presentations 11/23 and 11/25
101-207 and 101-202 presentations 11/24 and 12/1
Length: 3-4 minutes
Format: Prezi
Sources: Your paper, observations, fieldwork, research, photos, artifacts, videos, etc.
PROJECT COMPONENTS TO CONSIDER
1. Topic selection (1/2 page, typed, MLA, ) Due in class
a.
b.
c.
What do you wish to immerse yourself in?
Why you are interested in the immersion
How, when, and where you will conduct your initial fieldwork that will enable you to prepare the
proposal
2. Proposal (MLA, ) Due in class
a.
b.
Write a vignette/anecdote – a brief snapshot in words – based on your field notes that
i. draws upon the specific event or conversation that is indicative of your subculture and/or a
stereotype or assumption about them
ii. and led you to your research question
Develop two potential research questions that you could explore in your essay (eventually choosing
one)
3. Fieldwork (minimum of 4 observation hours over several visits,)
a.
b.
Document your observations and field notes using a double-entry journal
i. Left column
1. Record observations; noting time, date, and location
2. Incorporate sensory details: sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell
ii. Right column
1. Record your impressions about what you see, hear, smell, feel, etc.
2. Develop a dialogue between the columns: speculate, interpret, and raise questions in
the right column in response to information collected in the left column
Interviews - Conduct at least two interviews with members of this subculture
1. Try to understand what these people think and feel
2. Dig for revealing quotes and anecdotes
4. Academic research and annotated bibliography (MLA, 3 sources,) Due in class
a.
b.
After your initial fieldwork and choosing a research question,
Turn to AWC’s academic research databases and find three secondary sources for your annotated
bibliography
i. For each, provide a correct citation
ii. And write a few sentences articulating
1. the author’s position and/or findings
2. and how the source will be useful to help answer your research question and/or how
you can use it in your argumentative paper (does it support your point or refute it?)
5. Research essay (100 points) Rough draft due _____ Final due _____
6. Presentation (100 points) Due _____
RUBRIC FOR ESSAY 4: Ethnography
NAME ___________________________________
Grade: A=180-200 B=160-179 C=140-159 D=120-139 F= 0 – 119
Comments:
STANDARDS
THESIS
Exceeds
Meets
Fails to meet
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27
21
40
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24
40
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20
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States your point for writing the paper: A
STRONG and CLEAR answer to your
research question
COHERENCE and ORGANIZATION
Relevant and coherent development and
order of information within and between
body paragraphs through use of
- topic sentences
- support and elaboration
- transitions
FEATURES of FORM
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Excerpt from field notes that led to
your research question
Analysis of additional field notes
related to your argument
Analysis of research related to your
argument
Acknowledgement of different POV
GRAMMAR, USAGE, MECHANICS
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Written from an appropriate point of
view (Only using “I” when
discussing personal experience
with topic, not throughout the
paper)
No incomplete or run-on sentences
OR shifts in verb tense
Varying sentence constructions
MLA
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Paper follows correct MLA format
Parenthetical citations are
accurately integrated and cited
Works Cited page is accurately
formatted and contains correct
source citation(s)
RECURSIVE WRITING
Strong evidence of the writing process and
effective revision
- Planning/prewriting/
brainstorming
- Rough draft
- Workshop
- Field notes
DIGITAL COMPONENT
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Link to Prezi presentation
See specifications
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15
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