Research Tutorial

Sarah Beth,
Here are the questions you assigned me to answer about the Tutorial on the emich website I hope I did everything right and to your satisfaction.If not let me know and I will be more than happy to correct my work. See you soon on Monday at 5:00.Thanks again for being so understanding and not making me go all the way to school on Thursday when I don't have any classes, I apprciate it.


A.
The First Citation I used on the Halle Library Database Reasearch thingy was the "key word" section since there wasnt a lot of selections for my topic with the resturant I typed in "Waitressing" and found some articles,and books, as well as biographies that might be helpful to me.Oh and it won't let me underline on here so that's why there not, it wont even let me copy and paste it on. Here they are...

Dunn,Donna.Workplace/women’s place: an anthology. California: Roxbury Pub, 1997.

Waiting tables. Dir. Linda Chapman.Perf.Gloria Steinem. Meridian Films, 1986.

B.
Well, I typed in the database "observing" so that I might be able to find journals, or articles about how people observe and how I might go about observing my chosen community. I just want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I start. I found one on Observation skills for effective teaching / Gary D. Borich with contributions by Debra Bayles Martin. It explains certain ways going about this art.To get the full advantage I'm going to have to borrow the book from the Library, but atleast I have a partial look and idea of what the book is about before I have to run down to the Library. I don't think that I need a lot of research about waitressing and resturants because Its not that complex of a place but I do want to do some research on observing and researching a community itself. How I can learned and watch others without day dreaming and getting bored, like how you taught us to take field notes. It will keep us alert and observe more.

C.
I think I might try those magazines you see in the check-out isle when your in line at Meijer. They are those smut mags like Enquire or OK that have lies and paparzii pictures. I will do this because I feel the best observeers are paprazii themselves. They dedicate all of there energy and time to watching and getting to know the celebrity community, just like I need to get to know the resturant community. I don;t really think that those magazines are scholoarly at all. I hope I'm doing thise project right and that the main idea for this is observation and getting to know the chosen community that one has picked. I guess I'll see how things go as my research begins.

D.
I guess I will continue to try to locate on the database things that will help me with my rearch like observation tecniques and ways to interview people on certain topics. I also will try to look at maybe things on waitressing and how that is wrote about, verses the ways I do it and have seen others do it.

I do have many questions for you about this project. I have read over everything like the CRJ's and Annotated Bibliographies, but still am struggling with the steps how to do it. I'm sure on Monday I will have a whole list of questions for you to answer so be ready.

Amanda Elizabeth McCann