Hi y'all!
I hope everyones weekend was fabulous. I literally just copied and pasted the questions from Professor Flewelling's Blog and will be answering my questions that way. I thought it would be the most organized and easy to write! I am not entirely sure what I really want to write about, but I have been thinking about my job. So here we go.
1. What discourse community/community of practice do you want to research?
- My Job @ the Delight of France Bakery.
2.Why? What is it about this community that interests you?
-I am writing and interested about this community because I think it will be easier to do since I am actually apart of this group and know the people to interview in this group.
3.What do you already know about this community?
I know the hard work that goes into this job, the specific lexis and the different ways of communication.
4.Where are you headed? What will you research?
-I honestly have zero idea. I am still confused on what I am doing. I will have to talk this over with the professor of sure.
5. How do you want to approach this paper? What do you want to learn about the communicative practice?
-Still have no idea. I guess I want to learn how to balance all the tables you have at once, keeping everyone happy, and making the time to make sure everything that is asked of you is being done in an efficient time frame.
6. How are these communicative practices acquired? (Swales, Johns, Gee, Wardle)
-Without doing the actual research I think to answer my question above is probably just a lot of practice and time. Like anything you cannot get good at something over night!
7. What does it take for members to enculturate themselves? (Johns, Gee, Wardle, Mirabelli)
-Learning the ins and outs of the restaurant and who is in charge.
8. What literacies to members need to acquire? (Mirabelli)
-The menu and how to write quest checks.
9. What is this community's "way of being" (Johns, Gee, Wardle)
-Ummm being able to work together? Assigning people to certain tasks depending on their strengths.
10. What does it cost to take on this community? (Wardle, Johns)
-I would say you health takes a hit because you are constantly standing and running around. My feet and back hurt after every shift. Also it sometimes can mess with your mental state when costumers are treating you poorly.
11. What values are reinforced by this community? (Devitt, Wardle, Johns)
-Putting anther person first before yourself. Always having an upbeat and happy attitude regardless of the circumstances. Being able to multitask and really reading people.
12. How do readers need to see themselves? How do they need to consider authorities? How do they need to align themselves? (Wardle)
-I have no idea what those questions mean?? Um see themselves as servers? Need to consider their bosses, managers or who ever is in charge at the time they are working? I have no idea how they need to align themselves :'( (I clearly will suck at this paper)
13. Who will you interview? What can you observe?
-I am thinking of interviewing my previous manger Marc. He has a lot of experience as a server and as a boss. I can observe the restaurant I work at and the ways of the work place from an outsider perspective.
Well it is very clear I am still confused about this paper and need some help haha. Lets hope the mini interviews with Prof Erin will clear some things up. See y'all tomorrow!
Xoxo,
Allison Starr
Hi Allison,
ReplyDeleteI think you chose a really interesting topic for your ethnography project! I've never worked in the food industry before, let alone specifically a French bakery, so I'd be interested in reading your paper just so I can learn more about it. I thought it was also a good idea that you chose your specific workplace because you're already well-versed on how this discourse community functions and communicates. Good luck on your paper!
-Selena Mae
I like the way you color coded your blog. I also think it was a good idea to choose your workplaces as your discourse community of study. It will be a lot easier to do this project if you have prior experience with your group. I also think choosing a job in the service industry to study is a particularly good idea, because these jobs have surprisingly complex work dynamics. Enjoyed your blog.
ReplyDelete- Joseph Cashman
Hi Allison!
ReplyDeleteI really like how you organized your blog, it caught my eye with all of the colors of the rainbow. I kind of did the same thing on my blog as well. I like how you already know what you are going got write about for your paper, and the fact that you already work at the place you have all kinds of access to that subject. I am pretty sure you can observe and ask people questions anytime you want! You also have different people in contrasting levels, for example, you can interview your boss (just like you said) and an employee in training. :-) Good Job, I enjoyed reading your blog. See you in class!
-Vanessa Lim
hey Allison! I'm also thinking I want to write about my serving job too! but I am also not sure which direction I want to take my research! I'm hoping since I work at the restaurant it will be easy to have access to all the information we need! I like how you organized your blog & just answered her questions, it made it very easy for me to look at all your ideas! good luck with your paper! -Katie Yale
ReplyDeleteHi Allison!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I love how colorful your post is! Definitely made me smile and made it easier for me read and not cram all the information I read into one giant blob, lol. But anyways I think it's really cool that you're thinking of writing about your job! I like how you always talk about it and that it seems like an important part of you. Maybe writing and researching about it would give you a different point-of-view of things that you thought you already knew about your job. Hopefully you figure out for sure what you want to write about! Happy brainstorming and writing :)
- Julianna Duque