Autoethnography, Reflection of Personal Experience
Location
CSU 255
Start Date
13-4-2004 8:45 AM
End Date
13-4-2004 10:30 AM
Student's Major
Communication Studies
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Leah White
Mentor's Department
Communication Studies
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
Autoethnography is an innovative qualitative research method. It is the practice of reflecting on moments of your life, writing your story down, and examining the moments with a critical eye. Performing autoethnography allows the writer to capture the lessons learned and share these lessons with an audience. The audience in turn, benefits from the performance by receiving an empathetic view of a real life experience. Utilizing self-reflective prose about my mother's battle with cancer, I hope to better understand the experience as a whole and share my lessons with an audience. My paper outlines the basic principles of autoethnography and incorporates the text from my own autoethnography.
Autoethnography, Reflection of Personal Experience
CSU 255
Autoethnography is an innovative qualitative research method. It is the practice of reflecting on moments of your life, writing your story down, and examining the moments with a critical eye. Performing autoethnography allows the writer to capture the lessons learned and share these lessons with an audience. The audience in turn, benefits from the performance by receiving an empathetic view of a real life experience. Utilizing self-reflective prose about my mother's battle with cancer, I hope to better understand the experience as a whole and share my lessons with an audience. My paper outlines the basic principles of autoethnography and incorporates the text from my own autoethnography.
