Final portfolio

here is the link to my final portfolio...
http://iansenglishportfolio.weebly.com/final-102.html
thanks for everything... :)

final paper and website

As the writing II class comes to an end, we have a paper due which combines the three previous papers. I am able to look back at my time speant observing the broad street tattoo shop and decided the reason on why people get tattoos. i am also able to add the final steps of my website as i take the last english class i am required to take.

Reading for 4/12

Our homework for 4/12 was to read the example authors final ethonography project, this last paper is a combination of the previous three in which we have done throughout the class. after reading this i see that to make a fourth paper it will not be just copying and pasteing the previous three together, rather we must usue the tree previous essays in a fluent manner in order to correctly tell the story of our place of reasearch.

in our reading that we had, we learned about the interviewing process. it said that the process is not just as easy as asking questions and expecing answers. the questions you ask are very important, even if you think that asking a good question it could steer the interviewe into giving a specific answer. to change that you want to ask open questions instead of closed ones.

presentation

On wenesday my group, the hangover, gave a presentation on document design. In the presentation we covered contrast, reptition, proximity, and alignment. and how each of these elements are important within a document, in order to: attract, guide, and keep the readers attension, which will help you display your info on a much better level.

Group work project

Much like in english 101 in english 102 there is a requirment to do a group project. In my group the hangover, (otherwise this friday known as the hungover) that consists of myself, john (gerber) costa, brian leeman, and matt schotte. For a project we have to explain design principles to the class. We plan on useing a book writing by robin williams. Not the robin williams, but close enough

My midterm portfolio

http://iansenglishportfolio.weebly.com/

this is the link to my midterm portfolio

The hart student lounge

It is 9:00 on wednesday febuary 16

As i begin my research while waiting for my ten o;clock class:

I begin to notice the space that i am in, to start off its around a 16'x10' room, in one wall there is a row of half full vending machines. on the other wall is the pepsi machines along with a connect card station which allows you to put money onto the card the school uses.
on every wall other than that there are billboards covered in bright colorful adds that include such things as summer work proarms ski trips, study abroad programs, semester at sea, and various things that happen around campus.
The majority of the room is filled with benches and tables, it reminds me of a pizza shop in my town. sitting at these tables are students prsumably jamming in as much homework or studying before there next class, each of them sits with a mixture of books and papers infront of them. They also have a laptop however i noticed that half of there on facebook rather than working.
I stayed a little longer than the 15 minutes as i watched a man come in with many boxes on a dolly cart. he pulled up to one of the machines and started refilling it, he was maybe in his late 30's. he wore a green polo shirt with kacki shorts. he had blong hair down do his ears. he also wore brown boots. one he was done i stopped with my reasearch.

Broad Street tattoo parlor

For my project i have chose a tattoo parlor thats in walking distance of the school. I am doing this for my ethonagraphy project because i belive it is a way to view aspecific group of people in an isolated area.

To start off i know very little about tattoos or people who work in tattoo shops. By observing i hope to learn alot about the culture of the tattooing world.

ethnography project ideas

As we learned in class, the majority of the cource will be focused on an ethnography project. To do this project we must observe a small area, and tell of our findings, along with this we will proform interviews to get additional info. An example of this is the essay "A friday night at Iowa 80".

My ideas for this are the various small buisnesses within walking distance of the Bridgewater State university campus, this would allow for a contained reasearch area, which is in a location in which i could observe frequently.

Writing II the new and imporved

As my first semester at Bridgewater state university ended so did my english 101 class, however i was able to schedual my english 102 class. The blog will now relfect the work that i have done in my english 102 class instead of 101.