This is an overview of auto-ethnographic research methods for the self-study in English 1010.

1. My Literate Life
Doing auto-ethnographic research

2. What does auto-ethnography
mean?
• auto=self
• ethno-culture (social context)
• graphy=field of study
We need all three of these pieces to come
together to engage in auto-ethnographic
research.

3. More definitions
• “a qualitative research method that
combines characteristics of
ethnography and autobiography”
(Pace).
• “an autobiographical genre of
writing and research that displays
multiple layers of consciousness,
connecting the personal to the
cultural” (Ellis and Bochner).

4. How do I practice auto-ethnography?
• One primary data collection
method:
– collecting and reviewing textual
artifacts

5. Additional data collection methods
• self-observation field notes
• visual field notes
• written personal history
• interviewing
• poetry, songwriting, performance, or other
artistic composition
• chronicling activities/events/processes and
explaining why you think they matter