Working with Datasets

Access your dataset by looking at your coding tables you created for homework. Carefully read these tables as together, as if they were one text. Using a highlighter, pen, or other signifying tool, mark any codes that are similar across the tables. You may want to denote one set of similarities with an asterisk (*) and another set of similarities with a particular color. After reading your coding tables, make a list of the similarities that occur across your dataset. Then, take time to note any outliers, themes or ideas that stand out as unique.

After you work independently on your data sets, we’ll come together to discuss what you found.

The dataset that you’ve created will serve as a primary source for your autoethnographic essay. Your other primary source is YOU, your experience with collaborative learning in this class! How do the findings in your dataset relate to how you feel about collaborative learning and writing in this class? Write everything you can remember about one example from your experience this semester that says something about your personal relationship to collaborative writing in this class.

HOMEWORK

Read the two examples of autoethographic essays posted on Blackboard: Tiffany Rainey’s “Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder” and Trixie G. Smith’s “Collaging the Classroom, the Personal, and the Critical: Autoethnographic Writing in the National Writing Project.” We will discuss these texts on Thursday, May 2.

OUR CLASS IS CANCELLED THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 18