RJ#20
Annotated Table of Contents:
1. Artifacts:
a. The pre-season packet; this includes our year’s roster, our practice uniform schedule, and our team rules and expectations.
b. Ticket stubs from a few of the games
c. Photographs (which make up the most of my artifacts); these include shots of our multiple practice uniforms and game uniforms, our cubbies, our locker room keypad, our field banners, our “spit circle”, our national anthem, our team line-up, our whiteboard on the wall, etc.
2. Fieldnotes and Explanded Fieldnotes: these include fieldnotes from all practices, home games, away games, and away trips. This will also house my first interview fo WA4. Also, I have my fieldnotes from the Commerce Week on Writing.
3. Permission Slips: This holds the forms that teammates sign, allowing their names and faces to support my research in both interviews and photographs.
4. Writing Assignments: although I have a digital collection of these at www.lindseydurham.wordpress.com, I wanted to have a solid copy of them with my research material. This also allows me to display my multiple peer reviews and paper revisions.
5. Research Journal: again, same as my Writing Assignments, I would like to have a solid collection of them. I think it looks more professional and organized. As of now, I have RJ#1-19… #20 will obviously be added after this post is completed!
6. Surveys: my most interesting forms of research will be displaying particular motives (“fear, obligation, excitement”) that each girl feels while completing a particular act in regards to what “we are supposed to do”.
My most interesting data has come from surveys thus far. These papers display each girls motives, which can later be collaborated together to provide insight from the team’s motives regarding tradition, rules, and practices. Initially, I had thought that the majority of motives would develop out of fear (specifically from our coach, Neil Piper)… but a re-occuring theme has risen out- that many girls are more “going through the motions”. Although all of my surveys are not complete, I feel that in the bigger picture, an individual of a team may suppress negative attitudes in order to let the team flourish positively. I know that if this is true, it will have to a be judgement call on my part, as their surveys and interviews may be affected by this attitude. My next step it to complete these surveys. I would also like to add an additional aspect to my interviews, specifically “putting them in the spot” and asking, “Are you suppressing any negative attitudes to not harm the team?” “If so, I can use your pseudonym to prevent reprocutions from both Neil and the other girls.” Maybe with this comfort, I will be able to get untainted information and insight. Fieldnotes are definately going to continue as long as the season does. I have found the most interesting come from away trips, as we are all literally together for days at a time. This allows us to discuss team issues and feelings, as opposed to just all going out seperate ways when practices/games end on our home field. In regards to outside reading, I feel that my past Research Journals house great scholarship, but just as Dr.Carter’s insight has provided, I need to actually use them to support my research. So, my goal in these next two writing assignments, specifically WA5, need to make more use of our readings… for my project: Brandt and Moss.
Code Book:
LR locker room
Cub our practice cubbies, holding our practice uniforms
PU practice uniform (refer to past Research Journal discussing specific vocab)
GU game uniform
H home (used with either practice, game, warm-up, etc.)
A away (used with either practice, game, warm-up, etc.)
SC “spit circle”
*F fear motive (in question)
*O obligation motive (in question)
*E excitement motive (in question)
