Journal Entry #9

1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides her work)?
The writer is tryig to identify how the students negotiate various genres with which they come in contact. the study examines how students' constructs of "self" are reflected in school genres and how their backgrounds, specific academic disciplines, and institutional goals affect those
constructs.

2. How does this author collect the data she needs to answer her question?
To properly answer these questions the examiner does a close analysis of a small, religious-affiliated, liberal arts college. She focused on the resistance, contradictions, and conflicts in writing to reveal the ways that motivation and individual identity can shape the writing that participants do.In this case there were three case studies that were highlighted, Amy, Patrick, and Layla.

3. What sort of genres do you see your peers using as forms of “self-representation”?
Foe self-representation a lot of the time my peers use clothing and music to construct their sense of self to those around them.