Comments on: The Ethnographic “Shooting Ratio”

By: antpjb@emory.edu

antpjb@emory.edu — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:57:30 +0000

Excellent. I’ll use this in teaching.

By: Marie-Pierre Renaud

Marie-Pierre Renaud — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:37:40 +0000

All of my colleagues and I have this problem. We never know when to stop reading or collecting data, we are never happy with the results of our work, and we simply don’t find what we write compelling, original or detailled enough. Despite telling ourselves that we have to let go and accept that papers, memoirs and thesis can never be perfect, it’s easier said than done. Your analogy is a helpful one, and I do think several of my fellow grad students colleagues will benefit from it, especially the ones who are starting out!

By: anthrotheorylearning

anthrotheorylearning — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:17:24 +0000

Nice. This is so true of research papers, too. I have such a hard time getting younger students to understand that they will NOT be using everything they read. It’s getting them out of the ‘look it up’ and grab the first sort of relevant information for your paper. I could blame Google and Wikipedia, but students did it with encyclopedias before that. Learning how to sift through tons of information and then organizing it into a coherent narrative / persuasive argument is a very difficult skill to learn – or at least to teach!

By: Marco Lazzarotti

Marco Lazzarotti — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:33:03 +0000

I really enjoyed this post, thank for sharing

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 06:26:09 +0000

Nice analogy. Very apt.