RJ 13
Fieldworking 4
Karen Downing shows us some great ways on how we can capture a better understanding by just being able to choose the right setting to observe. In my research, I will not be using this very much as my research is based upon interviews and only that. The settings for those all depend on the interviewee and I do not think I will be putting in practice any of the methods that Downing mentioned. Also as Downing shows us how we treat ourselves to transient things such as flowers and such we are able to draw deeper into an understanding of how her fieldworking methods truly work.
Barton
In this passage, I found us regressing back to the basics of literacy. Although at first I was not amused, I was able to learn a lot through going back to the basics. They do a great job in making you understand that literacy comes in many different forms and that is not not something that will stay the same. It is constantly molding and rearanging to keep up with the modern times. As time progresses, so does literacy. As we went from getting very specific to opening back up to broader terms, I was able to learn things that otherwise I would have missed if I would have not gone back to the basics. That idea alone is somewhat of an encouraging thought.
As for my fieldnotes, I was unable to obtain any that would regard in my research as mine will all be interview based and until then I will not know who I could possibly observe in order to benefit from it.
