Recent 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### Communication graduate Amanda DiMartini '13 discusses the successes of her autoethnography that she wrote for one of her Communication classes:
“Writing this paper was probably one of the most challenging things I have ever had to do. I took ‘Researching Self’ with Dr. Amanda Gunn on a whim, not knowing what autoethnography was, or what I was getting myself into. Everyone in my class that semester grew to know each other more intimately than we had ever anticipated, and it truly changed and challenged us. A few of us submitted our papers to the 76th Annual Ohio Communication Association Conference, where this paper was accepted and won 2nd place Student Poster. I also won Honorable Mention for the 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### Orlando Taylor Award for it in the Spring of 2013, and I went on to submit this paper to the first Lambda Pi Eta Undergraduate Student Journal, where it one of five papers accepted for the first edition. I am truly thankful and in awe of the continual support of the 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### Faculty, especially Dr. Gunn and Dr. Laura Russell, in this paper’s journey.”
The following is an abstract of Amanda's paper:
“This paper contains an autoethnographic account of my experiences as a young girl and adolescent dealing with an extremely negative self-schema. It explores the cultural expectations and ideals of young women in the United States, as well as the bias I felt against my natural shyness and introversion. The possible influences of why my negative schema developed, as well as its consequences, are explored.”
