Guide to Primary Research

A Guide to Primary Research for the Discourse Community Ethnography

Generic Interview Questions

·      How long have you been here?

-12 yrs

·      Why are you involved?

-want to help people

·      What do X, Y, and Z words mean?

-Hippa-classified

-“SIA” code-cardiac arrest

-“DOA”-Dead On Arrival

-Repertory arrest- quit breathing but hearts still breathing

-BVM- Bag Valve Mask, helps them breath

-They have a lot of other codes then these once.

·      How did you learn to write A, B, and/or C?

-Patient Report- Summery of what you did with patient on runs/transports, and you lean to write then through you EMT classes.

·      How do you communicate with other people on your team?

-Radio

·      What kinds of texts do you write and read here? memos/emails/notes?

-The patient Reports

·      What distinguishes these texts from writing you do outside this community?

-Because you can’t talk about it too much outside the community because of Hippa.

·      Do you consider yourself a full member of this community?

-Yes always here working

·      Who has authority here and how is it displayed?

-Medic boss applied for boss then gets it, displayed by they know the person is the boss but they’re the same as everyone else.

·      How often do you write?

-They write their reports daily

·      What kinds of texts do you write? Informal or Formal?

-Formal

Specific Interview Questions

·      What types of writing or communicative activities do those in authoritative positions engage in in this community?

-Talk to people, take them on runs, and explain the importance 

·      How did you gain authority in this community?

-Just by being respective to all people you interact with

·      Who has authority here, and where does the authority come from?

-The State of EMT board, they set rules and they all have to bide by them

·      How do the various types of writing you engage in influence your role in this community?

-Talk to people about the importance of 911

Generic Forum/Discourse Analysis

·      What are the shared goals of this community; why does the group exist and what does it do?

-Keep people safe

·      What are the purposes of each of these mechanisms of communication?

-Radio- always has “service” so you can get ahold of each other

·      What kinds of specialized language do group member’s use in their conversation and in their genres?

-Signals or codes-so friends and families don’t get upset

·      Who are the “old-timers” with expertise? Who are the newcomers with less expertise? How do we differentiate between the two among a variety of texts?

-“Old-timer” teaches the new once, and the “newbies” have a “glazed over dear look”

·      How do newcomers learn the appropriate language, genres, and knowledge of the group?

-Classes and old-timers

Specific Forum/Discourse Analysis

·      What kinds of conflicts emerge within the discourse of this community? What prompts these conflicts and who is involved?

-Old-timers teaching the newbies the ropes

·      What are the processes of enculturation and apprenticeship used to help or hinder newcomers in joining?

-Hands on experience by riding along

·      What are the “modes of belonging” that newcomers are attempting to use?

-They think there bad stuff and know everything

·      What sorts of multi-literacies do members of this community possess?

-Different levels of certification require different aspects of data/information/documentation in their reports.

My Questions

·       What are the levels?

-Director

-Asst. Director

-EMT – Paramedic

-EMT - Intermediate

-EMT – Basic

·       Where do you guys do your training?

-We do all our training in house

·       Who do you guys do you dispatching? (People do it or is it electric) 

-Were all trained in dispatching and do it ourselves.

·       Are you guys always running or do you get breaks?

-Yes we get down time between runs


 

Syntheses

Syntheses

            Gleen wrote about how there is double sides, he shows it through the factory farm and how we preserve it as all good and cheery with all the animals happy when in reality there shoved in small spaces and always sick and hurt. In my paper I’m going the same wrought as Gleen, for the most part, about showing the other side of things and helping people see how things really are. With EMT’S you never notice them there and we don’t think about them. When someone say something about EMT’S we just think about people who jump out of the back of a medic truck and hurry get the person in it and take them to the hospital. But there is so much more then that they do and that’s what I’m planning to do is shed some light on their community.

Intro project 3

Intro to Project 3

            When you think about it, there are people who are never acknowledged, they’re never noticed, but always they’re behind the scene or “curtains”, and being taken for granted. EMT’S are such misunderstood and never thought about, which never made since because they’re the once always there on the scene trying to find everyway they can to keep you alive and safe. Lots of times they even give you your breath of life, deliver babies, or even hold us together literally and metaphorically. But are they ever thanked for what they do? No! That’s why I want to do my paper on them, in a sort of behind the scenes way, to show how there community really is and all they do for us.  

Malinowitz

Malinowitz

            She is talking about sexual orientation and how it is appeared in society and how it’s evolved. She talks about her realization of womanist but her mother’s reaction to giving her step father a “girly” sweater.

Project 3 Proposal

Project 3 Proposal

            I would like to do my project three on the EMT discourse community. I have several aunts that work in the field and work together. I feel like that there careers are very important to our community but there don’t get the recognition or appreciation they deserve for all that they do. And that’s why I want to do our project three on their discourse community.

Cover letter for project 2

Cover Letter for English Project 2

Lisa McClain

What I have learned from this project is how anything could be literacy and how everyone can get different experiences or lessons out of different things or the same things. our strongest part of the project is the stories I think because the stories because there so personal. Although my weakness would be in the format of how I put it together. The changes we made in our presentation was a bit of grammar and some more visuals.

Wardle

Wardle

            QD

-I believe it’s a unconscious act. 

            A&E

-Your text should fluctuate with the discourse community that you’re talking to. When I talk to children I would use a simpler language and calming voice, but when I talked to professors I think through what I want to say so it’s not to broad and then they understand exactly what I’m wanting to say. When it comes to the mercy of text I understand because me and one of my friend’s use to always write back and fourth but since I have such bad spelling that I had to always use small vocab and that sort, but when we talked in person I had to try and be carful to not use to big of vocab so she wouldn’t get confused and I wouldn’t be belittling her.

            Meta Moment

-I feel that they referred to authority so much in this because they kind of want you to get the concept and understanding of it. It helps for you to be more aware of your audience and your reenact with them.