Feedback for Alysha Water’s Beta:
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Feedback for Busy Issy’s Beta:
My own reflection on the Beta stage of my DA was not informed by peer comments (as I had none), but I took most influence from my tutor’s assessment feedback. I have taken seriously the obvious need for more academic sources and have headed into the DA with this knowledge. In turn, I’ve never used so many scholarly sources and am trying to make sure I cover all areas where academic research is needed for the DA – from data collection, analysis to documenting, recording, and final content production. I’m happy that my tutor saw my effort to connect my personas, but more satisfied that my poetry essays written through a cultural and community lens have been noticed and encouraged. I know connecting the personal to the cultural, and the cultural to the personal is essential for ethnographic research, so I keep that idea as a forefront theme into finishing my DA. I continue to ‘dismantle praise’ into the final report and continue to ask myself the questions: How do these poems add to or inform culture? How are they helping people? What cultural story does the poem tell? That last one is important. It’s actually the soul of my DA. Especially since working through a feminist analytical framework, I am observing women in poetry communities perform individual tales and transform them into cultural stories. Olivia Gatwood does that effortlessly. I’m concentrating less on the personal meaning of the poem and more ‘a way to see’ the poem. Culture perspective > personal perspective for this one. It’s exciting being able to use autoethnography to consider the world of spoken word poetry; to be allowed the tools for these kinds of postmodern and pop-culture, culturally aware discoveries.
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