My approach for the key terms on the volume level was to select terminology that was in common for most of the reports and then a couple of terms that may be of particular interest for the time period such as “Native Compensation for War Damage.” Following is the terms that I used at the…
Category: CAT124A Words and Representations
These blog posts were written by students during Summer 2018 as part of the requirement for their CAT 124 Practicum course. Each week students were given a prompt and asked to reflect on the questions in 300-500 words.
Words and Representation (due Sun, July 29) – Reflect on how you chose the subject terms for your own patrol reports. What terms did you choose? Why did you choose them? How was this similar or different to the way you identified subjects in your partner’s reports? What are the implications of the words you chose for future audiences?
Words and Representation, Pangia subdistrict
The keywords that I chose to use for my assigned patrol reports are: political education, economic development, cattle project, election, roadwork, self-government, and agriculture, census, tax collection. I chose these words due to the amount of times they were mentioned throughout my volume of patrol reports. A majority of my reports centered around the importance of…
Words and Representation
Copra production and road construction were the main key terms that I used. I chose these key terms because they were the main topics that were focused on in my volume. Before reading these patrol reports I had no idea what the word copra meant. And I thought about changing it to dry coconut production…
Words and Representation
In identifying, the subject terms for my patrol reports and the overall volume I relied heavily on textual repetitiveness and frequent use of specific terminology. I found it fairly-easy to recognize and compile the list into a specified key-terms section of my patrol report spreadsheet. Additionally, I chose these specific terms because I felt it…
Words and Representation, Kyeongbin Kim
For my patrol reports that investigated West New Britain from 1961 to 1962, I chose the following subject terms to represent main points of those reports: volcanic land, plantations, medical services, taro, copra, cocoa, canoe, banana, Catholic Mission School, agriculture, water tank, savings account. I chose these particular terms among many other potential choices in…
Words and Representations – Gulf District, Kerema Station, Volume 15, 1936-1937
While reading through my volume closely, I made note of all main ideas, frequently repeated words or phrases, and anything else that seemed interesting or otherwise notable. I was then able to select subject terms and craft my aboutness statement using those notes. After careful consideration, my chosen subject terms are as follows: Inspections; Court…
Words and Representation-Central District, Port Moresby 1944-1946 Jia Li Week 4
For my aboutness statement, I first perused the primary sources, the assigned patrol reports for Central District, Port Moresby, 1944-1946. During this process, I took two types of notes respectively: a comprehensive summary of observations, key terms, key events (“key” means showing up most frequently and consistently) and aboutness statement mostly in my own words,…
Words and Representation: East Sepik District, Yangoru 1950’s
In choosing my subject terms, I attempted to streamline my terms to match the content of the reports. In keeping the terms for themes and other aspects of my reports grounded in the actual language, I felt it helped eliminate potentially personalized vocabulary choices on my behalf. My strategy was to call specific terms such…
Vincent Rojas Words and Representation
Some of the main key terms I chose that I think were the most important were; poultry project, cattle project, election, political education, development, economic development, roads, self-government, and agriculture. I believe that these main key terms represents the overall themes of the volume I was given. From patrol one the main objectives of the…