Project One worksheet

Project #1 Worksheet                                                          

Your Place: ____The Basement of the Mu (The TV area and the restaurant area) ________________________________________________________

What are the intended functions of the place?                      

-The functions are to spend money and to Sid down buy and eat  food. The function is to also be with friends or to watch TV or be in on the computer  

What overt messages does the place send (i.e., openly communicated through signs)?

-One can take signs socially and see that a table is full by the amount of people there are. The chairs and table s tell you that you can sit there.

What covert messages does the place send (i.e., hidden messages)?

-There are not hidden messages  

Have previous users left traces behind in the place?

-They have left a mess of their stuff

Has the place been re-appropriated (i.e., beyond its original functions)?

-no

What social or cultural customs did you observe (i.e., rules governing appropriate behavior)?

I see people not talking loudly; I do not see people making a mess. I do see social cliques.

Who has access to the place?  Are there insiders and outsiders?

-There are insiders the students and there are people who do not go here but that does not happen on a regular basis

Who owns the place?

-ASU owns the place but the Students are more here than the staff and faculty

What is the place’s value (i.e., monetary or otherwise)?

Monetary, there are restaurants and vending machienes.   

Are there official representations of the place (i.e., online, in promotional materials)?  Do they accurately capture the place as you experienced it?

-No

Is the place in transition, a changing place?

-No, construction is not happening here. But there are people coming in and out. In the future there might be change here.

What conflicts or tensions are there in the place?

-People being loud there are not many conflicts other that people being loud and people complain ing about their relationship and their work load.

What is the place’s history?  Do you see evidence of the past there in the present?

-Yes I see has advanced since its institution. The past can be seen in the restrooms.

How does this place differentiate itself from other places?  What other places is it similar to, but how is it different from those places?

-It is underground.  The upstairs does not have as many vending machines. This place is more spacious between tables than the upstairs.

What questions do you have about your place?

-Why are the outlets in few places, why are they not spread out?

Key Features / Profiles (taken from the Norton Field Guide (Goggin and Bullock) Chapter 16, pages 165-166)

An interesting subject.  What is unusual about your place?  Alternatively, is there something ordinary about it that you can show in an intriguing way?

-Show that the Basement of the MU is for monetary gain.

Any necessary background.  What background information will you need to include about the place in order to situate readers?

-I would need to tell that this place is downstairs of the MU

An interesting angle.  Rather than trying to tell readers everything about the place, what angle(s) might you use?

-That it is a social economic purpose.

A firsthand account.  Did you interact with people in the place or participate in some way?  What experiences did you have there that you can write about using “I”?  (Yes, first person point of view is encouraged, especially for this paper.)

-People were asked questions and that have responded. Insight was asked and they have put their input.

Engaging details.  What specific information must you include in your description of the place?  What potential does your place have for the use of sensory images, figurative language, dialogue, anecdotes, and showing rather than telling?  What do you want the dominant impression to be?

-Tell random happenings that have occurred here. I would use that this place is communal but also to get money.

Generating Ideas and Text (taken from the Norton Field Guide (Goggin and Bullock) Chapter 16, pages 168-169)

Explore what you already know about your subject.  Why do you find this place interesting?  What did you already know about it?

-I know that this place is a place to be social this place has multiple restaurants. I know that and I find that interesting.  

If you’re planning to interview someone, prepare questions.  What would you like to ask someone in the place in order to better understand it?

-No

Do additional research.  Does your place have an online component?  How else might you gather additional research?

-It does not have a specific page for the basement of the MU. I might ask people who were here longer than me.

Analyze your findings.  What patterns, images, or recurring ideas or phrases did you use to describe your place?  What contrasts or discrepancies do you see?

-I see community and a place to eat.

Come up with an angle.  What is most memorable about your subject?  What most interests you?  What will interest your audience?

-How that this place is a communal place is what interests me. I think that the place might interest people by telling them the things that stand out.