COMP 2000 – Journal Entry 9

 

1.     What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides her work)?

 

How do students’ constructs of “self” reflect in school genres and how do their backgrounds, specific academic disciplines, and institutional goals affect these constructs?

 

2.     How does this author collect the data she needs to answer her question?

 

The author conducts her study at a small liberal arts college, St. Augustine College. She collects her data mainly in the form of in-classroom observations. Interviews are also used.

 

3.     What sort of genres do you see your peers using as forms of “self-representation”?

 

My peers “self-represent” using knowledgeable resistance as it fits within the framework of the sciences. Because every hypothesis, theory, and law in science is never proven as fact, there is always room for questioning. The student must knowledgeably resist these established ideas as being truths to progress within the genre.