2006-07

COURSE: 632-o    English III for English minors, OCI
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TASK N° 1     Due date: Nov. 24, 2006     Group ____ Group Leader: _________________


Ethnographic Report Evaluation Form


Formally, students' writing should be in British academic style. Besides using SBE (South-east British English or Standard British English) as the norm-giving variety for lexico-syntax, it should have the 6 discourse characteristics indicated here. In particular it should make abundant use of the connectives indicated here.
POINTS:  1 = the paper seems written by a British academic:   0 = the style is conversational or follows Italian discourse conventions; too few connectives..


Content-wise, the Report should be marked as follows.

POINTS FOR THE SOCIOMETRIC QUESTIONNAIRE FINDINGS: 1 = quantitatively categorized data. 0 = raw data.
Explanation: 1 means that the findings of the Sociometric Questionnaire give a quantitative hold on the “reality” reported (for example: “2 out of 3 students interviewed said X to question 5” or, if only 1 student was interviewed, “The student confirmed male dominance in 2 out of 3 questions regarding male/female power ploys”  0 means that the findings of the Sociometric Questionnaire are expressed only in general terms. For example: ”The interviewee said she would speak first to a boy at a party but would not ask for his phone number” or “The interviewee confirmed my impression that Americans are mostly like Italians.”

POINTS FOR THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF FINDINGS: 1 = explicit, falsifiable premises;    0 = implicit or purely intuitive premises.
Explanation. 1 means that the student explains in explicit terms the social model implicit in the questionnaire and thus defines what the “reality” reported consists of.     0 means that the student gives generic considerations about quantitative vs. qualitative methods, or says (untrue) banalities like “Numbers don't give a true picture”.

POINTS FOR RESULTS OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEW: 1 = verifiable qualitative data. 0 = impressionistic data.
Explanation: 1 means that the student explains variation between her/his initial hypotheses (her/his positioning of Trinity students within Hofstede's cultural dimensions) and her/his actual findings; moreover, s/he justifies the “empathetic intuitions” that s/he gleaned from her/his interviewee's narrations.     0 = The student gives impressionistic opinions that are undocumented and impossible to replicate or invalidate.

POINTS FOR THE ACCOMPANYING EPISTEMOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION: 1 = the “knowledge” that the student professes to have gained from the interview is presented problematically and, at the same time, in ways permitting some kind of verification    0 = implicit or purely intuitive premises.
Explanation. 1 means that the student demonstrates an awareness of the inevitable subjectivity of her/his findings and shows how s/he limited the risk of distortion through authentic empathy with her/his interviewer.     0 means that the student took her impressions as “real” and therefore described her/his interviewees behavior and values as “objective” facts.

WRITE STUDENTS' NAMES ON LINE, CIRCLE POINTS FOR EACH CATEGORY, GIVE TOTAL.


1. alfonsina pizzirusso  Form = 0        Content = 2         Total = 2
 
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2. antonella landolfi  Form =  1       Content = 2         Total = 3
 
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3. aloisia de longis  Form = 0        Content = 2         Total = 2
 
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4. giulio davì  Form = 0       Content = 2         Total = 2
 
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5. fabio di cocco  Form = 1       Content = 3         Total = 4
 
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6. _________________________  Form = 0 1       Content = 0  1  2  3  4         Total = __
 
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