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Finale

The semester is coming down to an end and I'm jumping with joy. After writing several pages of observations and interviews I have finally put togther my ethnography of the gym completely together. It is looking pretty promising and full of great information. I've learned much about myself as a writer as my weaknesses and strenghts and also learned a lot about my community that I've thought I'd known the best. This project definately made me see my writing from outside the box and taking a different perpective.
In coclusion I had a great time spending most of my days in the place that I love and learning more about it. Not only did I gather great information and write a good amount of pages I can proudly say that I thoroughly enjoyed this project as a whole.

Putting It All Together

Writing an ethnography is a lot like putting a puzzle togther. You study the pieces, piece by piece and carefully rearrange them to make a final outstanding complete work of art. I've learned that even though having all the information written down, I am far from being done. I've taken all the pieces out of the box and studied them , but have yet to put the puzzle together. To complete my studies I must carefully manipulate all my information that I have gathered and revise and rearrange them into a masterpiece.
Once I have concluded all of this informtation together, my ethnography project will be completed by having all the necessary elements and getting rid of things that aren't needed. For my project I will organize all my information to make my paper flow easily and make it an easy read for the reader. Finally, by taking an idea and running with it makes all the difference and will make the paper that much better.

Interview

Interviewing is very ironic and contradictory becauseyou must be flexible and structurable at the same time. The concept is a huge oxymoron. It is key to have a list of planned questions to ask the interviewee and making sure not to just let them babble, but for you, the interviewer, to have a very open ear and listen to them answer the questions thoroughly. Sometimes listening closely can depict an important artifact or story that you wouldn't have expected to be one.
Questions to ask should be closed and open and range from factual to interesting. In my interviewing section of this paper I will be conducting such topic questions as these that range from a person's personal opinion about something and facts about the community that I am studying. I am very excited to get to know more about my community that I don't already know and people's feelings about this community and the things that surround it.

Interview

In the recent reading the writer vividly describes the atomsphere of the bowling alley to set the tone and mood of the setting. We as the readers can tell that can be a competitve bowling alley with league, but is mostly a family ran atmosphere. She explains that the parking lot is always full which means a lot of people like this alley and we can infer the that atnmosphere, service, and or food is good here which makes people come back.

When interviewing bowlers she puts in great detail and great quotes that tell us about each person she interviews at the bowling alley. An example is when she interviews a woman and she replies that she is going to make it home just on time to watch CSI when she gets back home. As readers we can infer that this woman has more things on her mind than just bowling and really enjoys this hit television series. Another example is when she interviews a the participant, Lauren, and Lauren tells her if you do bad on a Thursday night which is the men's league "they will kill you." Clearly during Thursday nights men take their league very seriously.

In conclusion, the writer does not only interview people, but puts valuable responses into her essay which tells us about the community at the bowling alley. In order to do so you must ask good questions that have good responses and intergrate them into a neatly well-written flow.

Bowling Interview

The Hangover

For the group presentations my group, The Hangover, will be focusing document design. The importance in a design can represent the website, advertisement, or whatever it may be as a whole. If someone comes across a website or advertisement and the design is awful they are not even going to bother to read what it is about. We are very excited to teach the class about document design and its importance and signifigance.

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