Authenography

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="7">“Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.” ― Peter Tieryas, Watering Heaven</p><p id="d106">One of the top phrases told to me in a time of crisis is that you can do it. In other words, even if the sky is falling it is up to your own determination to rip through the thresh hold of doubt and climb out of the hole of impossible. For me writing a full and complete thesis in a matter of three weeks with only minor material to use. I felt like a sheep during those days waiting for the wolf to bite down and hunker its teeth into this failing girl. ( An F plus would be my grade and hell…I deserved it.)</p><p id="221d">The choice for my paper was to rearrange the style to be more personable and influential in the field of teaching. In order for this to happen, I needed to be able to write in the first person. After debating about the different forms to do this thesis in we decided on Autoethnography as our decision of heart for the paper.</p><p id="1349">Autoethnography is a style in which “ research and writing seek to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experiences” (Ellis). By switching perspectives, I am able to utilize my own personal aspects of how I grew up, got educated, and watched my Asian friends struggle in the classroom.</p><p id="144a">In total, my life experiences helped me develop a cultural and social outlook on how, and why we need Asian media to be conjoined with our core curriculum in America. Today is especially a grueling time for our society as people are being quarantined over a health virus that is killing people. Many have formed presumptions about Asians and that they carry the disease automatically. Now, I will have to convey this honestly that it is not true. Just because a disease began in an Asian country does not mean every person who is Asian has contracted it. This is why I believe we need to alleviate this type of racism from entering our world.</p><p id="b3ad">What I believe is that our Secondary Elective for Literature courses in Middle-Schools, High-Schools, and University should not be the only place to learn about Asian culture for students.</p><figure id="7e18"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*dXzB43OZdnwtFhm8"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="htt

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Dreaded first draft

Have you ever written a thirty-page first draft, only to shred it to pieces about two weeks before an assignment is due? I have. In my first draft, I tried to play a researcher trying to describe all that I could about Asian media and the culture that Asian Americans live in. At first, I sounded like a regurgitated textbook.

My first draft of my thesis was not done as a cultural and social perspective on Asian media. Rather, I wrote it up as a mock research paper that had no true direction, until now. At first, the original direction of the thesis was heading into a detailed paper about Asian Americans, education, and literacy. However, it lacked a component that could pull a reader into the work itself. Functionally, the original piece played out like a school textbook that would bore readers. I needed a new angle to work on my piece.

After a long conversation with my teacher, we chose to look at an interesting point of view that would spice up the delicate balance of my piece even though I only had two to three weeks to pound out a final version of my thesis.

Starting anew is a challenge in any respect. Life, relationships, hardships, and other issues. But even harder is trying to reconstruct an entire paper from its original form into a piece that is more engaging. Autoethnography was our choice.

You can do it

“Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.” ― Peter Tieryas, Watering Heaven

One of the top phrases told to me in a time of crisis is that you can do it. In other words, even if the sky is falling it is up to your own determination to rip through the thresh hold of doubt and climb out of the hole of impossible. For me writing a full and complete thesis in a matter of three weeks with only minor material to use. I felt like a sheep during those days waiting for the wolf to bite down and hunker its teeth into this failing girl. ( An F plus would be my grade and hell…I deserved it.)

The choice for my paper was to rearrange the style to be more personable and influential in the field of teaching. In order for this to happen, I needed to be able to write in the first person. After debating about the different forms to do this thesis in we decided on Autoethnography as our decision of heart for the paper.

Autoethnography is a style in which “ research and writing seek to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experiences” (Ellis). By switching perspectives, I am able to utilize my own personal aspects of how I grew up, got educated, and watched my Asian friends struggle in the classroom.

In total, my life experiences helped me develop a cultural and social outlook on how, and why we need Asian media to be conjoined with our core curriculum in America. Today is especially a grueling time for our society as people are being quarantined over a health virus that is killing people. Many have formed presumptions about Asians and that they carry the disease automatically. Now, I will have to convey this honestly that it is not true. Just because a disease began in an Asian country does not mean every person who is Asian has contracted it. This is why I believe we need to alleviate this type of racism from entering our world.

What I believe is that our Secondary Elective for Literature courses in Middle-Schools, High-Schools, and University should not be the only place to learn about Asian culture for students.

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

Autoethnography

What is Autoethnography? Autoethnography is a mix of both an autobiography and an ethnography. Autobiographies are written in the first person form and often tell of a person’s life from the event of birth till their death. A true definition for autobiographies is “ “ epiphanies which are remembered moments perceived to have significantly impacted the trajectory of a person’s life” ( Ellis 2). It is the realization that the events in our life have had an impact on who we become as a person. Such events, written out, are done in the form of an autobiography.

For me, I can use multiple personal experiences where my friends try to overcome both a language barrier in an English classroom and common stereotypes held within their culture. My strong belief is to integrate Asian media into the classroom because I am passionate about bringing in a new culture for others to learn, accept, and understand.

By combining autobiography with ethnography “ I am able to study a culture’s relational practices, common values, beliefs, and shared experiences for the purpose of helping insiders ( cultural members) and outsiders ( cultural strangers) better understand the culture” (Ellis 2). My thesis will synchronize how education, personal experience, and cultural background can enable a new foundation for an English composition, literature, or reading classroom.