Afterword (pg 158-END)

Vocabulary Builder by, Mark Van Den Broeke

Rapport-a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well (159)

Queries-ask a question about something, esp. in order to express one's doubts about it or to check its validity or accuracy (159)

Relinquish-voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up (160)

Mulling-period of careful deliberation (161)

Divulged-reveal something (162)

Unambiguously-not open to more than one interpretation (163)

Privy-sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private) (165)

Verbatim-using identical words (166)

Voyeurism-1. somebody who watches for sexual pleasure
2.persistent observer of misery or scandal (167)

Pseudonym-false name (168)

Discussion leader by, Emma Carlson

1. Do you think that Rebekah Nathan followed an ethical protocal while conducting her interviews with students? How would you have acted if you were in her shoes?

-We beleive that Rebekah took the best approach when conducting the interviews. She fit the role of who she was interviewing without making them feel like them as students were being "studied". When she talks about addressing to the students prior to interviewing them, that she was researching would have been a poor decision. This is because the students would have answered in a way to make them sound "perfect", in a sense she would not have gotten the true facts.

2. Was the data she provided in the book legitimate? Give some examples as to why or why not.

-The information that she provided was legitimate because the information gathered answered her questions in the beginning. Us as readers, however, believed that she should have asked more questions about the social lives of college students, rather than talking about groups and organizations. She rarely talked about parties, and if she did it was in a negative way. One thing that she did well was taking the information she gathered and related it back to her own personal experiences when she was in school or while she was teaching. It helped see the two different worlds between students today compared to students decades ago and professors.

3. Why do you think that she didn't share all of ther information in the book?

- We believe that she didn't want to share all of her knowledge because she didn't want to expose certain students. She went on talking about how she gained their trust and she would feel bad exposing them in writing. Another reason why is because possibly it was only one instance that didnt relate to anything back in the book and couldn't be elongated inorder to write a whole chapter on it.

4. Do you think students would have gotten mad if they saw there quotation in her book?

- They would probably be more mad if the information they gave was negative about the institution or if their name was by the quote. But sense Rebekah did such a good job with being a professional; if the comment was negative she didn't leave a name by it. These comments also added to the different sections because it sounded like a true student talking.

Summarizer by Jessica Dulli

In the afterword, Nathan discusses how she conducted her research. She ensures the reader that she followed all the ethical guidelines when doing her research and when publishing her ethnography. She stresses the fact that all the information she received from students at "AnyU" is confidential and that she chose a pseudonym in order to protect the identity of the students included in the book, as they probably still attended the university at the time.

The tone of this short chapter is very professional. She keeps this tone, because she is justifying all of her research methods and informing the reader that she followed all the ethical guidelines a researcher must follow when collecting data. She also kept the afterword very concise, because she already made her conclusions in chapter 7 of the book. It is almost as if the afterword is just one very large footnote.