Название: Doing Field Projects
Автор: John Forrest
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Культурология
isbn: 9781119734628
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In general terms, I recommend breaking your presentation into three parts: setup, data, and conclusions. Your instructor may have different, or more specific, guidelines, but these components will be in the mix somehow. Presenting your material clearly is as important as conducting fieldwork effectively.
Part 1. Setup
Here you present details concerning how you got started on the project. Lay out what interested you about it, how you fixed on specific places and/or people, and what your initial research question and hypothesis were (if hypothesis formation is appropriate). Also explain any preconceptions or concerns you had before beginning the project, and describe any missteps, such as canceled events, and other things that forced you to change plans.
Part 2. Data
Lay out your data in an appropriate manner. Methods of presentation of data are driven by the nature of the project. Sometimes you will have voice recordings, sometimes photos, sometimes plain written notes. Each chapter here will have specific advice about the presentation of data as well as advice on adding explanatory notes. As needed, get in the habit of using pseudonyms as well as disguising the location of events (wherever possible) to preserve confidentiality.
Part 3. Analysis and Conclusions
This section is much more than a simple declaration of whether your conclusions matched your expectations at the start of the project or not. This part of your presentation lets you delve freely into an analysis of your data as well as draw a variety of conclusions. These conclusions may take many forms. Sometimes you discover that your original research question was misguided or posed badly. Sometimes your intention was to establish a hypothesis in order to show it was false (the null hypothesis). Or, maybe you discovered that hypothesis formation was unnecessary or unhelpful. Sometimes your research design was badly conceived or your data are muddled. There are a thousand and one ways in which what you intended to do in a project and what you actually did do not coincide. This part of the presentation is your opportunity to critique yourself as well as to offer your formal conclusions.
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