Last class, you used this rubric to move forward on your Autoethnographic Essay. Our conversations about your work focused mainly on integrating the following types of evidence in your essays.

• Personal narrative (your story)
• Narrative data (collected from your peers’ blogs in class)
• Published evidence (2 assigned sources)

Today you will work in pairs or groups of 3, to read each other’s drafts. It will help to have our Autoethnographic Essay Rubric accessible while reading. As you read, take notes on the following to discuss with the author:

1. To what extent does your peer’s draft use the above kinds of evidence (personal narrative, narrative data, and published evidence)? How is the evidence organized? Are there logical paragraphs organized around a single piece of evidence? Is there too much evidence in one paragraph, which may signal that ideas need to be broken into multiple paragraphs? Is there any evidence lacking or that needs development?
2. To what extent does the draft write back to or intervene in a cultural narrative? This might be the hardest part of this assignment, so to make it a little easier, think about how you can help the author identify any stereotypes, common misconceptions, or misunderstandings that their autoethnography works against. Think about telling the author what you learned from reading their work.

Before we end class, you’ll create a new page on your website for your final essay.

You will also start working on your About page. Take a look at my example of an About page for some guidance of what’s expected.

HOMEWORK

Keep going! Your Autoethnographic Essay is due in one week as a new page on your website.