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.

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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.