Teaching Autoethnography - Personal Writing in the Classroom

by Melissa Tombro

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This text is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition.

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Publisher
SUNY The Fashion Institute of Technology
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Teaching Autoethnography
  7. 1.10: 9. The Interview Process
  8. 1.11: 10. Conducting Observations
  9. 1.12: 11. Putting It All Together
  10. 1.13: 12. Challenges of Personal Writing
  11. 1.14: 13. Concluding Thoughts
  12. 1.15: 14. Sample Class Schedule
  13. 1.16: 15. Additional Readings on Autoethnography
  14. 1.1: Introduction
  15. 1.2: 1. Understanding our Students’ Relationship to “I”
  16. 1.3: 2. Getting Started in the Classroom
  17. 1.4: 3. Writing Essays for Class: The First Steps
  18. 1.5: 4. Workshop and Peer Review Process
  19. 1.7: 6. Writing about Spaces and Events
  20. 1.8: 7. The Autoethnography Project
  21. 1.9: 8. Choosing Topics for the Autoethnography
  22. 1.6: 5. Memory
  23. 1.6: 5. Memory/Character Essays
  24. 2: Deep Observation Assignment: Eleven Examples
  25. 2.10: Sylvia
  26. 2.11: One
  27. 2.1: Melanie
  28. 2.2: Rattling Thoughts
  29. 2.3: Southern Belle
  30. 2.4: The Battle
  31. 2.5: The Woman with the Purple Mat
  32. 2.6: Steven Bertram
  33. 2.7: The Man
  34. 2.8: Colors, Lines, and Shapes
  35. 2.9: Angelic Atmosphere
  36. 3: Self-as-Character Assignment: Eight Examples
  37. 3.1: Sight
  38. 3.2: Fastforward
  39. 3.3: Reflections
  40. 3.4: Unfortunate Truths
  41. 3.5: Hanatomy
  42. 3.6: What I Never Thought
  43. 3.7: Past Midnight
  44. 3.8: Five Feet Mighty
  45. 4: Memory Assignment: Six Examples
  46. 4.1: The Curse
  47. 4.2: Memory of the Maine
  48. 4.3: A Memory of Mr. Oko
  49. 4.4: Inhale, Exhale
  50. 4.5: An Honest Living
  51. 4.6: A-Relief
  52. 5: Memory/Character Essay - Thirteen Examples
  53. 5.10: Brooklyn, Madness, Lust, Death, and the Apocalypse
  54. 5.11: Mommy
  55. 5.12: The Job That You Want
  56. 5.13: Self-Destruct
  57. 5.1: How to Survive
  58. 5.2: A Living Contradiction
  59. 5.3: Georgia on My Mind
  60. 5.4: To the Center
  61. 5.5: Growing Through Dirt
  62. 5.6: Playbill
  63. 5.7: I Told You So
  64. 5.8: Genetic Disposition
  65. 5.9: Shomer Nagia
  66. 6: The Space or Event Essay - Thirteen Examples
  67. 6.10: There and Back Again: A Comic-Con Tale
  68. 6.11: Sundays
  69. 6.12: Family Ties
  70. 6.13: Focus
  71. 6.1: In-Patient
  72. 6.2: Daringly Different
  73. 6.3: Two Places, One Home
  74. 6.4: See the World
  75. 6.5: Manhattan
  76. 6.6: November First
  77. 6.7: Get a Grip
  78. 6.8: Room in the Back
  79. 6.9: Aging Not so Gracefully
  80. 7: The Autoethnography: Ten Examples
  81. 7.10: YouTube: Science Isn’t Just for Geeks Anymore
  82. 7.1: On Anarchism in New York
  83. 7.2: Allies, Advocates, Activists
  84. 7.3: Unicorny, the Only Way a Coder Will Define Rails
  85. 7.4: Friendship Is Magic
  86. 7.5: Gin and Tonic: A Look into the Subculture of Taxidermists
  87. 7.6: Don't Judge the Bible by Its Cover: An Honest Story with a Cliché Title
  88. 7.7: Autoethnography on Manhattan Drag
  89. 7.8: NaNoWriMo
  90. 7.9: Steel Paradise: The Hardcore Metal Aesthetic
  91. 5: Memory
  92. Back Matter
  93. Index
  94. Glossary
  95. Detailed Licensing