{"id":32651,"date":"2024-09-16T02:14:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T02:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/autoethnography-choose-a-culture-or-group-of-which-you-are-a-member-video-game-culture\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T02:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T02:14:39","slug":"autoethnography-choose-a-culture-or-group-of-which-you-are-a-member-video-game-culture","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/autoethnography-choose-a-culture-or-group-of-which-you-are-a-member-video-game-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Autoethnography Choose a culture or group of which you are a member. (video game culture)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Directions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1. Choose a culture or group of which you are a member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">2. Begin with self-reflection (what you already know through experience).&nbsp; Use your own experience to begin describing and analyzing your culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">3. Conduct library research using online databases.&nbsp; Use three (3) secondary sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">4. Conduct an interview (one primary source) to use in your essay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">5. Use your analysis and research to help identify and clarify misconceptions outsiders might have about your culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">6. Use your analysis and research to help identify something about your culture that insiders and outsiders should know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">7. Explain why your analysis and research are important, revealing, or useful to our understanding of your culture.&nbsp; What difference do your ideas make?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">8. Use MLA Style and incorporate research using quotes, paraphrases, and summaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">9. Length: 3-4 pages + Works Cited page (so, 4-5 pages total).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">10. Integrate four (4) total sources (3 secondary and 1 primary).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What are you doing?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analyze and explain how one such cultural or group affiliation has affected your sense of who you are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Remember: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Consider your own experiences as the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">starting point<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> for exploration, examination, and representation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Things to consider and address as you write:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analyze and explain the extent to which your identification with a particular group has contributed to you being \u201cothered.\u201d By \u201cothered,\u201d I mean how you or your group has been excluded or separated or made to seem strange or at odds with other groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What stereotypes exist about the group you identify with? Where do you find these stereotypes? TV? Textbooks? Websites? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Be specific.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Explain what it means to be part of this group. Address how belonging to this group has influenced how you view yourself, the way you view the world, the way you view other people not part of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Investigate the history of this group. How did it get started? What were its founding principles? Are those founding principles still endorsed and practiced by most followers? By you? Have the principles changed?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">If this is a group you chose (rather than chose you), how do your reasons for belonging to this group cohere with the major tenants of the group?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Can anyone be a member of the group? Why or why not? To what extent did you choose to belong to this group and to what extent were you born into it?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Remember:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your audience will most likely include those not identified with your group. Therefore, your voice and tone will need to take these members of your audience into consideration. As you write, stay aware of how your writing relates back to your thesis (main idea). Avoid stating too much background or history of your group without continuously relating it back to your own story, interpretation, and experiences. Intertwine your own story with the larger picture, don\u2019t keep the two aspects of the paper separate.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700; font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Essay Requirements:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*Length:&nbsp; 3-4 pages (typed, double-spaced, MLA format) + a Works Cited page (so, 4-5 pages total)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*Include four (4) total sources (3 secondary and 1 primary).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*MLA essay format<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*Participation in Peer Review<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*Participate in in-class conferences<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">*Focus on the following elements:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Engaging introduction<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Clear thesis statement<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Fully developed paragraphs<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Transitions between paragraphs and ideas<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Clear focus and organization<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Inclusion of specific examples, stories, and anecdotes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Thoughtful analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Correct integration of sources<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directions: 1. 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