Week 10

I would like to begin my mini-ethnography by giving a little background of what the setting is like. I would like to step back and give through descriptions of what I see, hear, smell, and feel. Another way I could give introductory information is explaining why I chose this organization as my field site and what attracted me to volunteering. In my mini-ethnography, I will not specifically identify or interview insiders to this subculture. Because I feel that would be unethical, I will instead focus on perhaps another volunteer or family member of one of the athletes.For the structure of my mini-ethnography, I would like to make it flow in chronological order as much as possible. However, I feel that keeping similar themes and observations among the subculture is a vital way to pass along information. I hope to include several pictures to give readers who have never volunteered at the Special Olympics a visual of what the environment is really like. By including pictures, when they are reading my mini-ethnography, there minds-eye a more accurate representation of what my fieldwork was like. To conclude my mini-ethnography I will probably end with the feelings of another volunteer. At this point, I am a little unclear on how I want to end my research. To make a powerful end to my mini-ethnography, I may attempt to find an athlete that I feel will be able to understand the questions and their use. Through providing an insiders point of view at the end, I may be able to drive my final point home hard. 

This structure will be the most helpful when presenting my information because it presents the information logically and concisely. It will be helpful because it details how my knowledge has grown. Therefore, the readers understanding can grow in a parallel way as mine. Also through chronological order, the information is presented in a more natural way, as if the reader were there with me everyday as my understanding grew.