I’m working on a Communications question and need guidance to help me study.

Please See the attachment for Instructions and Example that you will follow.

Requirements: 4 pages single-spaced

Ethnography /Participants Observation

Please adhere to the following details:

Details: To accomplish this exercise, you should:

1. The site is a café in the united states. This Café is a place in which people sit and drink coffee and work on their laptops. Please keep this in mind. 
2. The Café must beobserved for approximately½ hourwherein you will provide a description – with details. (look at the example I provided. This paper must be the same length and similar to the example in nature.

• Write the observation unobtrusively.
• Initial observation will probably take broad focus andby end of observation, you might begin to come up with some focus.
• Your field notes should be in paragraphs, single spaced with blank lines b/t paragraphs. I would expect b/t 5 and 7 pp. of notes.
• Try to include more than just the visual sense.
• Be sure to separate observations from interpretations as you write! J
• Include a final “memo” that summarizes the event, tells what you learned (both about observing and about the field/scene/site in question) and suggests potential directions for research.

1. Take a close look at the provided example. This assignment must be similar in nature to the observation you will write.
2. Clear sentences.
3. Free plagiarism 0%.

See the example below:

Example

Participants Observation

As I complete the assignment on the observation in the library, I find myself surprised at how quickly the hour went, and at how much was really going on inside this seemingly boring, static room. Continued observations might have led to conclusions about people’s study habits in the library, organization styles in study, uses one uses for such a room, a study of the magazines and periodicals used by different people, dress of different people in the library situation, and appropriate interaction. There is no doubt the reading lounge area at the other end of the library would have proven as interesting as this one, except that this area had the books and periodicals in plain sight so that I could see how people selected items to read, whereas in the other area I would have only been able to observe them after reading.

My first goal in this assignment was to observe something where I “really expected something to happen.” I finally received permission from the PR man from the state Welfare office to observe the lobby of the busiest food stamp office in the valley, according to the main telephone answering personnel. However, this permission came too late to manage the traffic on the day before the assignment was due. I spoke to the man about maybe doing some research with that department at another time.

I felt the library was a good set up, as everyone had their books and magazines spread out around the table. I wore jeans and a plain blue button‑up shirt, walked in, and, after looking for the best place in the library to observe from, chose my table. I wanted a table from which I could observe the reference desk, but more seemed to be going on in the periodical room itself. I suspected that Harvard girl would eventually notice that I was not looking at the open three‑ring binder I had open in front of me, but rather was watching everyone in the room and taking notes (as her attention seemed to be only tentatively attached to the book in front of her). However, she gave no indication that she knew I was observing her and the others. I deliberately waited until I had been there for a while before I gave those near to me my direct attention.

As I finished the assignment, I wondered if I maybe had concentrated too much on describing people’s clothing and magazine selection behavior, and wished I had been in an area where I could maybe see some more interaction, or maybe had focused more on just a few people and what they continued to do. But for a first observation exercise, I feel good about it.

While this was most interesting, I’m sure that there are many other things that would have been more interesting to me to watch. The choice was not made from any great desire to observe behavior in a public library, but rather because of lack of permission to go into some private agency and lack of willingness on my part to negotiate watching in some place where watching and writing would draw undue attention. The exercise is good for it forced me to try to watch for the unobvious, to not assume just because someone was looking at a newspaper that they were reading it, to notice even the subtle differences in the way several people all do the same thing.

Field Notes:

[Opening paragraph(s) would explain the context(s) of my observation—when, where, how. I might include a brief map, if relevant, and any physical description pertinent to what goes on. What follows are some pages from within the field notes. I think, in retrospect, that I focuses too much on dress, etc., instead of actual behaviors. But still, it gives you an idea. Don’t forget to include in notes any “observer’s comments” [O.C.] that you feel are relevant. Please attach your “scratch notes” along with the field notes when you turn it in. There’s not really a set “length” for the observation. Observe for ½ to 1 hour, taking scratch or head notes. Then type the notes. The memo (first page) summarizes important aspects of what you think is “going on” in the scene—this might be informed by Hymes’ framework for description, but doesn’t have to be. It should also, in a paragraph, state what you learned through the exercise]

I just begin to notice a well‑dressed man who is sitting there when white wind‑breaker returns once again to the area with a purposive pace. He walks directly to the back shelf toward the lobby, third column over, second shelf down, middle magazine. Picks it up, looks at it, and returns it to the shelf. He then goes to the first column, fifth shelf down, right magazine. He picks up the magazine and walks past my table going behind the pillar behind me. I crane my neck to see where he has gone, but he is nowhere in sight. A photocopier sits lonely along the wall. The circulation desk has about 4 people at it now. But wind‑breaker has gone like the wind.

Gecko has put his magazine back on the comer shelf and is “on the prowl” again.

A girl with long black hair, about 20, hot green pants (not green hot pants), about 5’3″ or so, barely enters the section back by what seems to be the newspaper section (back wall toward the lobby). She has not really even stopped moving before she turns and walks the other way. Near her is a young man, about 22, with tan pants and short blonde hair in a stylish cut. He stops to look at what is on that back shelf. The girl has a black coat with white speckles. This man also has a coat on. While they seem to enter together, they do not speak to each other, and she has left. He remains for a while just looking at what is on the shelf. He pulls a couple of newspapers off, looks at them only briefly, and returns him to the shelf. He does not enter or become a part of this periodical room society.

White wind‑breaker is back again. He returns rapidly, replaces the magazine, and walks out, briskly leaving the library.

The 65‑year old pillar man gets up, slowly folds up his newspaper and puts it back on the shelf. He walks over to the older lady with the bird book and says something to her. He is not smiling, but neither is he scowling. Both seem pleasant. She hands him her pile of books, and she gets up. They leave.

Three teen‑age girls [O.C. the same three that passed earlier? I believe so but am not sure] walk by in the lobby talking loudly. No one in the periodical room seems to look up.

Behind me the older man and nondescript‑gender person have left the area. Now there is a girl in an ASU tee‑shirt, about 20, with shorts, medium brown wavy hair. She joins her friend, similar, at the New Books. They talk quietly. [O.C. My first description was to say she was a homogenized ASU student‑‑which raises questions for what I see as homogenized or typical, and makes me wonder why such people don’t stand out to me?]

Gecko has found another magazine in the same comer of the room. Sits in the same pillar‑chair, and reads. At the same time, another young man, about the same age, dark medium length hair, blue jeans and blue shirt with a baseball hat, has sat in the pillar around the comer from Gecko, where he is also looking at a magazine. He remains there for some time.

The mobile action in this now seemingly busy room has subsided, allowing me to continue my gander around the area. By the window are four chairs that sit facing a center coffee table. Two people sit in chairs at opposite comers [O.C. I’m beginning to think that strangers seem to pick chairs at furthest distances in such situations in this area in at least two instances]. One is a man, 35‑ish, preppy pink/green striped type shirt. The other is a young black man, about 18‑20, in white shorts, hi‑top tennis shoes, a baseball hat which he wears forward, a white tee‑shirt with a non‑obtrusive print (i.e., not a Gecko). Both are sitting looking at some magazine. They are not interacting with each other.

The 50‑year old with dark slacks and tennis shoes rises, deposits magazine on side wall by Gecko, second column, third shelf from bottom, far right position. He returns to his table, folds his three ring binder closed, and leaves the section.

The three young ladies are still in the section, each seated at a table. One in a purple~pink‑‑‑green clown dress, dark complexion, sits with her back to me several tables away. The other two, both about 1921 years of age, are facing me [O.C. unobtrusive observation is difficult]. One is rather heavy set, wears a loose Harvard sweatshirt and white shorts. She has taken off her sandals and sits barefoot with her legs crossed on the chair on the side of her table. Her hair is straight, pulled into a pony tail that is not entirely neat. It’s brown, and just beyond shoulder length. For most of the time she has been leaning on her right arm as she reads in a thick wide book, hardbound, of which she has bent the covers back to back as she is reading. She writes in a notebook. She slouches, and only occasionally moves from her arm‑perch. When she does, she sits in a relaxed position as she continues her studies. Around her are arrayed her purse, a newspaper, her sunglasses, a worn blue folder with about a quarter inch of papers in it, some shreds of spiral notebook trimmings, and a thick spiral notebook, all in a random pattern.

The other young lady is dressed in a white print, sleeveless top. she has long dark wavy hair, which seems neat. She is wearing shorts. She has been reading the entire hour out of a spiral‑bound book that is about an inch thick. Arrayed in front of here are several stacks. One has a small dictionary, two books, and a calendar. Next to that stack is a dark grey three‑ring binder, some white papers. Next to that stack is another stack, and finally, her purse. While not exactly parallel, the books are in clear stacks. The books she is reading sits with edge even to the edge of the table. She is taking notes in another three ring binder which sits next to and parallel to the book she is reading from. She sits upright, though not stiff. She takes off her glasses and lays them on the table and continues reading. She sits with her feet crossed under her chair.

Suddenly, white wind‑breaker returns yet another time. This time he is with a young lady, blonde, medium‑length hair, black shirt. They walk to the periodical section, turn around, and leave again.

As they are leaving, four young boys come in, 2 black, I Hispanic (shorter/younger than the rest) and a tall, but same‑age white boy with a crew‑cut. They walk near the reference desk and begin to walk to the books beyond it, but they turn around and leave.

A young man enters (about 24‑26 years old). He has a high forehead, but is young, slender. He wears a shirt with thin, green and blue horizontal stripes and blue sweats. A walkie‑talkie or cellular phone [O.C. A high‑school friend of mine calls these yuppie‑leashes]. He carries three small hard bound books. He sits at a table in front of me, opens a book, and after about two minutes leaves the area.

The young man in blue by the back pillar (next to Gecko) closes his magazine after about 15 minutes. He gets up and puts it away, getting another, this one from the 2nd column along the back wall in the comer, fifth row down, middle position. He sits in the same chair and opens the magazine.

Another young man enters the library, also about 18 to 20 years old. He has a shirt with thick blue and white stripes, faded jeans, and tennis shoes. He ports a magazine‑type publication under his arm, but it is not bound in one of the library covers [O.C. may not be a magazine, but something else with which I’m not familiar]. He walks back and forth along the back wall at a slow pace as he frequently halts to look at one of the publications. He takes what seems to be a newspaper from the top shelf of the fourth column, Right position. He stands as he opens folds the sections of the paper down one at a time without opening up the newspaper to look inside the sections. He closes the paper, puts it under his arm, and leaves the area. He walks to the stairway and descends the stairs.

A girl I hadn’t noticed before, with a small brown leather or vinyl backpack and a three‑ring maroon soft‑cover notebook leaves the area. She has a white shirt and blue jeans on and is about 20.

As she leaves, a lean man, about 50 years old, with short dark hair and plastic frame glasses enters. He is dressed in brown shorts, a blue short‑sleeve sports shirt and thongs. He goes to the back wall, first column, eighth shelf, middle position, and puts away a magazine. [O.C. This man has probably been here all along, but I just have not had a chance to notice him yet]. He walks right past where I am sitting to a pillar behind my chair. He sits, opens up a medium size hard‑bound book with medium sized type and large top margins on title pages with stylized first letter of the text and proceeds to read.

The man with stylish blonde hair and the girl in the hot green pants (both with coats on) walk back into the area from the shelves behind the reference desk. They walk closely together over to the circulation desk. They stop there for a moment and hand a book to the person behind the desk who does something with it which I can’t see. The person returns the book, and they walk past the Books for Sale section and leave the library through the main entrance.

A middle‑aged dark‑complexioned man, about 35‑40 enters with a folder‑type notebook (hard leather). The man, who appears Hispanic, has a moustache, black hair which is combed and slightly wavy. He is dressed in blue‑grey sweatpants, a dark blue shirt with a bold green print on it that says “Dillard Precision,” and Nikes. He walks directly to the, back comer of magazines behind me, to the fifth column, the second row, the left position, and removes a magazine. After looking at it only briefly he returns it to the shelf. From there, he goes to the first column and pulls a magazine from the middle position. He does not browse or look for the magazines, but walks up to them directly, removes them from the shelf without looking and walks over to a table. There he places his leather notebook on the table, opens it, opens one of the magazines and begins to write.

The young black man is arranging his things. He no longer has a magazine in his hand, though it is not certain where it is now. The other man who had been sitting near him by the window is no longer there. The black man rises, grabs a large blue tote bag, and walks out of the area. His unassuming print on his white shirt reads Michelob Dry.

The dark‑complexioned man with the moustache who is standing by the table looking at the magazine pulls a R5 white card out of his thick leather notebook. He holds the card in his mouth as he approaches the side wall in the back comer. He takes the card out of his mouth and walks directly to the back comer, the fifth column from the left, the second row of shelves down, the middle position, and takes the top magazine. He looks at it briefly, but puts it back on the shelf and returns to his table‑base, where he continues to stand looking through the magazine he already has on the table. Shortly, he returns to the back comer, same column, but this time takes a magazine from the fourth shelf down, left position. He stands in front of the shelf and looks at the magazine.

As the man stands reading a few feet away from the baseball‑capped youth‑in‑blue, Gecko, who is sitting just around the pillar, gets up. He has several magazines. He puts magazines away at 1, 7, left” and at “3, 2nd from bottom, middle,” both of back wall comer. He looks around at the magazines on the back wall comer and puns off another magazine from the back comer, “5, 5, right.” He sets his backpack on the floor next to the chair he was sitting at before, by the pillar, and sits and opens up one of the newfound magazines.

Another young man enters the library, goes directly to back wall to a specific slot, removes paper, sits down, finds a section, opens it up, and begins to look at the newspaper.

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