Journal Entry # 9

COMP 2000 – Journal Entry 9

 

Answer the following questions about the English education article, “Participant and Institutional Identity: Self-representation Across Multiple Genres at a Catholic College,” by Katrina Powell.

 

1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides her work)?

 

The writer is trying to find out how students construct the model of self become relative to school genres and how their background, academic disciplines and goals affect their identity.

 

 

2. How does this author collect the data she needs to answer her question?

 

The author uses various models for case studies and ethnography to collect her data. She studied a wide range of genre systems at a small and private, Catholic-affiliated college in order to make an analysis. With these methods she is able to come to a clear view of the activities of students in order to understand the genres that are responsible for the identities within the activity systems. She also asks a series of questions to a research site to collect her answers.

 

 

3.      What sort of genres do you see your peers using as forms of “self-representation”?

 

In order to form self-representation within Nova Southeastern University, students use their background interest and personality to situate themselves within the clubs and organizations which they feel they are able to perform at best.