University
of Rome III - Degree in Languages & International
Communication - Convener: Patrick Boylan - Academic
year 2006-07
COURSE:
632-o English III for English
minors, OCI
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TASK
N° 4 Due date: Dec.
23, 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.
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