The document outlines an assignment to write an ethnography essay about a specific cultural group, focusing on their routines and significance. It requires firsthand observations and provides guidelines for structure and content, including insights into the group's values, beliefs, and practices. Students must also submit a draft addressing their writing challenges and needs for feedback.

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Due:
Sat. Sep.
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Format
: Typed, double-spaced, submitted as a word-processing
document.
12 point, text-weight font, 1-inch margins.
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Length
: 850 - 1000 words (approx. 3-4 pages)
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Overview
: In Unit 1 and Unit 2, we focused on ways that writers build
ideas from personal memories and experiences into interesting
narratives that convey significance and meaning to new
audiences. In Unit 3, we have been discussing how writers
invent ideas by interacting with other communities through
firsthand observation and description. These relationships and
discoveries can give writers insight into larger concepts or ideas
that are valuable to specific communities. For this writing
project, you will use firsthand observations and discoveries to
write about people and the issues that are important to them.
Your evidence will come from the details you observe as you
investigate other people, places, and events.

2. Assignment
Write an ethnography essay focused on a particular group of
people and the routines or practices that best reveal their unique
significance as a group.
An ethnography is a written description of a particular cultural
group or community. For the ethnography essay, you can follow
the guidelines in the CEL, p. 110-112. Your ethnography
should:
· Begin with your observations of a particular group. Plan to
observe this group 2-3 times, so that you can get a better sense
of their routines, habits, and practices.
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Note: if you cannot travel to observe a group or community,
plan to observe that community digitally through website
documents, social media, and/or emails exchanged with group
members.
· Convey insight into the characteristics that give the group
unique significance.
· Provide context and background, including location, values,
beliefs, histories, rituals, dialogue, and any other details that
help convey the group's significance.
· Follow a deliberate organizational pattern that focuses on one
or more insights about the group while also providing details
and information about the group's culture and routine
As you look back over your observations and notes, remember
that your essay should do more than simply relate details

3. without any larger significance. Ethnographies also draw out the
unique, interesting, and special qualities of a group or culture
that help readers connect to their values or motivations. Note:
Please keep in mind that writing in this class is public, and
anything you write about may be shared with other students and
instructors. Please only write about details that you are
comfortable making public within our classroom community.
Assignment Components
In order to finish this project, we will work on the following
parts together over the next few weeks:
Draft
: Include at least one pre-revised draft of your essay. The draft
needs to meet the word count of 850 words and must also apply
formatting requirements for the project—in other words it must
be complete. Make sure that your draft is clearly marked
"draft."
Along with your draft,
post a short, 100-200 word paragraph
explaining your greatest challenges and most urgent needs as a
writer. What parts of your essay are you most eager to have
feedback about?