One thing that I have learned that has proved to be the most useful in my composition process is when doing research about a topic it’s not bout summarizing but writing what is the main points of the topic and choosing what we want the reader to know about the specific topic. This helped me a lot in many of our assignments but mostly in the Literature Review. This semester I’ve learned many things like how to become a better field worker and to reflect on my writing like what things I can fixed to become a better writer.

Yes, writing a reverse outline did help me. It helped me as a writer to see what my objective was and it allowed me to evaluate my ideas. It also helped me see a version of what I wrote. I will used the reverse outline strategy it in the future for revision of my writing when doing an essay.

What I see as the benefits of a literature review in the social sciences is that literature reviews provide background information and context for the research problem. And explains why your topic matters. The work I’m doing aligns with this benefits by me summarizing many amounts of information from different sources to provide a comprehensive overview to the reader about my topic. An aspect of my literature review that interest me the most was since my topic was on business etiquette it was surprising to see that many of today’s generation don’t have training on business etiquette and how they lack manners in the workplace. It was interesting to me because I didn’t really expect that from today’s generation. The intended point was for people to learn what proper business etiquette is since today’s generation lacks it. To bring this point to the forefront in my document I needed to bring background context of my topic.

A learning objective I have engaged with it this semester was how to become a better field worker. We have used field work all throughout the semester. We have been learning about fieldwork since the beginning of the semester, first with our Interview Essay. In our interview essay we focus on learning what is fieldwork? Why do we studied it? Fieldwork helps us to understand how we can make observations of conversation, interviews, etc. Field working has helped me with learning from real life experiences. It helped me to better communicate, with data collection, and how to conduct interviews. We used field working during the Transcultural Interview Essay and the Field Observation Essay as I mentioned. I’ve engaged with it during both of those essays. In Transcultural essay I had to learn how to interview someone. And in the Field Observation Essay I had to learn how to observe and collect the right data. I’ve developed in this by understanding more fieldwork and becoming a better fieldworker.

In the article “A Report from Occupied Territory” by James Baldwin it takes place in Harlem, 1964. Policeman were beating up a kid when a salesman approached them and ask they why, then they started beating the salesman so bad that he had to be hospitalized. The cultural information included in Baldwin’s article was about the Black community in Harlem. The oppression and racism African Americans faced and the brutality of police officers they had to go through. Questions a field worker might ask are what people are being affected by this? When is this events taking place? And what kind of social issues are being faced? Sources of information that a fieldworker might use to penetrate the insider perspective are interviews, observations and conversations between the member in this community. Some comments I have about the passage in between the two reading’s are that Baldwins article is about Harlem and the racism African American s experienced during those times, and Shively’s reflection he talks about how when he will talk about his white peers will tell him how things haven’t changed, but just because they have change doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t talk about them. Baldwin and Shively offer the following steps to hold society accountable, Shively mentions how we should help the police accountable for their actions. Another step is to address the injustices that are happening.

In Wehle’s essay found elements of field working for example Wehle’s kept a journal where she wrote about her mother, her father and the pain she felt. She also wrote everything she saw or heard and thats something as fieldworker we do observe. She records conversations her and her mother had, And also notes the dates of the conversations. Wehle’s uses this element to observe everything she feels or sees. The purpose was to capture her views and expressions. One of Wehle’s strategies she uses to compose her observations are time, we see Wehle’s will would note down the date of her observations, when she a significant moment or conversation she will write it down. She also tells how long it’s has been since her parent’s deaths. Which as fieldworkers it’s very important so we can have a better understanding of when everything is happening and we can compare our data of our observations.

By completing this observation I have learned many things. I have learned on my knowledge of field-working about many different cultures, values, environments and behavior’s. By observing many things I also learned how to take better data and to ask my self questions also that were useful for when I was doing my Interview Transcript. As myself as a fieldworker I have learned to put myself out there, and to be curious about things like I’ve said before to ask question, to write about everything I see even the smallest things. To include that I’ve believe will be useful later on.

Adichie’s talks about that we shouldn’t really on a single story because it could lead to stereotypes and misunderstandings on people, cultures, or places. And how a single story is created based on lack of knowledge. She also argues how having one perspective it’s damaging to the other person culture. She talks about when her roommate and other people will assume people from Africa were poor and they didn’t have things like books or music. Advice Adichie offer is we shouldn’t only hear about one single story we should seek different perspectives and not have stereotypes. I will use Adichie’s advice this semester when I work in my observations to not have only one narrative and learn from many different subcultures. Adichie’s advice also help me in my transcultural interview to not assume anything of my Interviewee just based on where they are from.

This week I read essays “Mother Tongue” and “Mute in English.” Both stories are about the author’s mothers in their struggles with speaking a new language. In “Mothers Tongue” the author Amy tan tells how her background and her mother’s “broken English” made her who she is. In “Mute in English” by Lee, he describes how many immigrants in this case was his mother. Was silenced by language barrier’s. Cultures represented are Korean and Chinese. As an immigrant myself I can relate to both essays I came to the U.S. at just 8 years old, and like them I experienced that difficulties of being in a new country and not knowing the language but I was able to learn the language quickly. But I saw the struggles that my mom went through with learning English and how people will get angry when she couldn’t understand something or when she tried and people will make fun of her English. Even though my mom has learned a lot of the language she still struggles with interacting with others speaking English. But I’m proud of her cause she has always tried her best even when people couldn’t understand her and has come far. I wish that the authors included more about how some people don’t even tried to understand someone that speaks a different language. And how some people can be extremely racist when you don’t speak English especially in the U.S. I will approach by making the interviewee feel comfortable, not being formal, intimidating or interrogating but being respectful. Also be patient with the interviewee and know that we both have different perspectives and different backgrounds.