Blog 17...Research question, relevant research, and identification of methods

Research Objective:

·         I would like to research how writing effect/help women that have been in abusive relationships

I would like to observe and find out:

·         How long did it take the ladies to start writing

·         Did they start to express their feelings right away did they have to make a certain connection first

·         How is their interaction with the other women in the room

·         What was the mood

·         How were the ladies emotions during this time

·         Do they share their writing

·         Do most prefer to keep their writing to themselves

·         Does it make the ladies feel better to share their feelings

·         How tense is the mood

·         How exactly do they write (are thoughts just jotted down or fully written?)

Identification Methods:

·         Creative writing

·         Ethnographic

·         Textual analysis

research project thoughts

After my conference I made up my mind finally what I would like to do for my research project. I would like to research how writing effect/help women that have been in abusive relationships. I want find out things such as

·         Does keeping a journal help with the healing process of what you have been through

·         Being in a wring group- does is make these women feel more powerful because they can control what they write and what goes on in the group

·         Would any of them like the start their own writing group

I plan on going to centers that house battered women and I plan to find out some of the following

·         Ask if I can give a survey with various questions about their experiences

·         Ask if I can sit in on one a session of some sort

·         Observe a writing group

I am not too sure of all the methods I want to use. I know I will be using auto/biographical methods and ethnographic methods

Blog 16- Ideas For Research Project

I have not have to a definite decision on what I want my research project to be on. Some ideas have come across my mind but I want to pick a topic that will be interesting to research. I want my topic to be a subject that is not commonly spoken on. Some of the ideas that I have chosen was:

1.      Women who were in abusive relationships ( how their life is now and the after effects of it all)

2.      Parents who have a mentally disabled child ( how their life is affected by it)

3.      People who are struggling to live due to the economic crisis (especially those who are well educated)

4.  Immigration status (the immigration status of anyone under "reasonable suspicion" of being an illegal alien they have to be able to provide proof that they are legal in the states)

I have not exactly decided what topic I want to choose from. I am leaning more towards number 1 or 4 though. What do you think? I am stuck

Blog 15-Plan For Revising Essay

I do not really have a plan for revising my paper. I feel like there are some point that my paper can be stronger, for example, I noticed that I really did not have a strong conclusion. When reading my essay I know that I could have a stronger body.

To make my body stronger I could go back to read the text again to see if I discover any new conclusions that can be made. I did not want to make the mistake of going over line by line explaining what was going on and end up repeating myself in the essay. More text can be added to my paper, I believe you can never hurt your paper by giving more detail. Lastly I think the whole structure of my essay can use some revising.

Blog 14-

discuss what you did well + what you need to work on for your DA essay. Then indicate what kind of feedback you would like from readers.


My main focus was to point out how A went from being a victim to the trouble maker and what caused this change.


I feel like I did well with explaining what my main point was. I clearly discussed what the differences between the first and second excerpt. I believe that my introduction stated clearly what the essay would be about.  Finding the evidence was easy to reveal.  It was hard to transition and compare and contrast exactly how A went from victim to trouble maker.



Feedback?
I would like for my reader to tell my exactly what I did wrong, what you feel I felt out, what you feel I should not have said, and mainly how to improve my essay.

Blog 13 - DA Draft

Discourse Analysis is a specific type of analysis. Discourse Analysis is designed for a person who is conducting the analysis to read deeper into the sentence and text. The text I will analyze for discourse analysis is The Chat Room Transcript. The chat room is conducted by interviewers S and A. During this interview both interviewers speak about their experiences with the internet and chat rooms. The first interview was done in a perspective of interviewer A. She was speaking of her experiences of the internet and chat room when she was younger. The second interview was conducted based on what her attitude now is towards the internet. My focus on the analysis and how A became from playing the victim to a trouble maker during the interviews. During my analysis I noticed how the mood and tone changes during the two interviews. It is so important for this discourse analysis to understand how and why A went from being the victim to being a trouble maker.
            Being a victim and a rebel are such drastic changes that I want to elaborate and point out why the change had occurred. The victim, for example is like someone who is being attacked, the trouble maker is most likely the ones who causes harm to the victim. With the roles of A changing so much it immediately makes one wonder what happened for A to have such a change in attitude. In the first transcript A is the victim. She uses words such as “I”. By her constant repeat of saying “I” it make one conclude that A was alone. A had an experience in her life where she thought she was talking to a boy her age on a chat room. After A exchanging information with this boy, she soon realized that he lied about his identity. A never told anyone about this experience in fear of getting into trouble with her parents. After much analysis, this is why I say she was alone because she never told anyone of her terrifying experience resulting in her always using the pronoun “I” in her first interview, symbolizing her playing the victim. In the second excerpt A uses “we” most of the time. She is very open about the fun she and her friends have on the computer. She admits that she talks to strangers on chat rooms and willing sends pictures and information. She is more confident. A no longer is the victim anymore but she is the trouble maker by sending her pictures, exchanging phone numbers and caring less about what she does. During the second interview A is more confident as oppose to the first interview where she was shy and afraid to say what happened to her.

While the first interview was going on S had to be the leader of the conversation between the two of them. S had to initiate most of what was being say; it was like any answer or information she received from A she had to pull out of her. S was the leader of the conversation because during this time A was the victim. S had to encourage A to tell the story, she had to reassure her that this was just between the two of them. It is ok to assume that A was embarrassed about her past because she really gave minimal detail of what happened to her during her chat room experience. Secondly because A did not tell her parents about the older mad she came across on the chat room this shows that she was fearful and ashamed of what she has done.

Going from a linguistic approach A used the word dangerous to describe her first encounter with someone she met on the internet. On her second encounter A uses the word funny to describe her meeting new people. This shows how much her attitude has changed towards the situation, she is more fearless.

All in all, all of these facts are evidence that A goes from being a victim to being a trouble maker. There are concrete facts that show how A went from being a scared and lonely victim to being a strong tough trouble maker. Because nobody knew about her meeting the older man it shows how alone she really was. After feeling victimized and alone plays a big factor in why she went from being alone to not caring what she did on the internet. I always questioned if A felt animosity towards her parents because they didn’t know anything about the internet which is why she ended up in the position that she was in. Is this why A is to protective over her sister with the internet now because she doesn’t want her dealing with what she had to deal with?

The linguistic approach and the word usage of the story, and how her attitude changes so much shows more drastically how she played the victim to the rebel. I don’t think that is was A’s growing up that happened that caused her to have such a change in attitude but more so because she got away with what she did the first time she feels invincible.

blog 12

Questions, Evidence and Connections

a.      Why is it that “A” didn’t even care that the person she sent her pictures to was someone she ended up knowing

b.      Will her sister end up in the same situation she did even though “A” monitors her on the computer?

c.       Even though her parents aren’t up to date with the internet why is it made to seem as though they don’t even have a concern about that their children are getting into.

d.      Is “A” sister following in her footsteps?

e.      Do you think that the pastor’s son is going to inform her parents on what she is doing on the computer?

f.        Why is there just a change in attitude and the tone between the first interview and the second one?

Blog 11 -DA Focus

I am going to focus on the chat room transcript

There are a lot of main points in the two different excerpts. One of the ones that stuck out to me were how does “A” go from being a victim of the internet to one who finds her own trouble?

Points and evidence that are used

1.      There is a different tone between that two excerpts

2.      When “A” told the first story she spoke like a scared young girl. She used “I” a lot. We spoke in class how her using “I” signified that she was alone in the situation she found herself in

3.      In the second excerpt “We” is used. We also concluded she using the term “we” signified that she wasn’t afraid anymore. She matured and wasn’t alone.

4.      The first excerpt “A” does most of the talking as oppose to the second one her attitude changes drastically on the topic. She as an” whatever” attitude about the troubles that she runs into on the internet. The first interview she was scared that she was even speaking out on what happened to her as a child.

5.      The first interview she was scared of that was on the internet because of the older man calling her house. Now that her younger sister is on the internet she protects her so she doesn’t have to run into the same troubles she did.

If her parents knew more about the internet could her situation with the older man could have been avoided?
 Would her parents put a block on some sites and uses of the internet?
If her parents were more internet savvy would she now still be using the internet in the ways that she does (sending pictures and chat rooms?)
if she would have told her mom about the older man caller her houe do you think that she would have leaned from her mistakes and not be doing that things she is doing now on the internet?
is she mindset of what happened to her when she was younger, does she think it is funny now that she is older?
because of what happened to her, is this the reason why she does what she does on the internet now?