Annotation: Ethnography in the Writing Classroom

Annotation: Ethnography in the Writing Classroom

"Their job is inscribe and read the language of a ritual as well as of a speech situation, that is, to scan the full range of a culture's texts."p(80)

Ethnography is a study of the different people's cultures and analyze based on the observation about how people interact and why their dialect or culture represent about them. For example, nowadays we can easily observe in school or class because they have different ethnicity of background and culture of students.

"The focus of ethnography in the writing classroom ought to be "language". p(79)

The example in the article, Poussaint is not used to call him as a "boy" because he is a doctor so he prefers "sir" or "Doc". However, the police did not know and call him carelessly even though he did not intend to mean anything. In the other hands, Poussaint feels so irritated about how he was being called. Therefore, people are acting and feeling based on what other people said and the way they act. Dialect is important and complex because different culture has different dialect. So that we need to know or analyze the differences. Language that we express, sometimes other people harm because of our dialect.

"It is important to emphasize that in "doing ethnography" students like Veronica are actively and genuinely doing research and that they are connected to the research they do."p(82)

To study of ethnography, we need to interview someone about something we can relate or connect with. Interviewing people is really important in this study because we want to know how people think based on their culture beliefs, environment that they grew up, social and so on.