Triangulating the roles of Equity Advocate, Observant Reporter, and Knowledge Maker
Final Requirements: 2,200 words total | Include introduction and conclusion strategies | Proper citations and Works Cited page | Focus on equity within a community you belong to
Role 1: Equity Advocate (600 words minimum)
Write about a time or experience where you faced or witnessed an inequity within your community. Include all four narrative elements—event, order, point, and details—with a clear plot arc (status quo → inciting incident → rising action → climax → resolution).
Planning Notes: Choose a community you belong to (by birth or choice). Consider who is included/excluded, community values and norms, policies or hierarchies that affect well-being, and what practices are cultivated. Structure your narrative with a clear plot arc and focus on specific details, dialogue, and sensory information.
Draft Your Equity Advocate Section
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Role 2: Observant Reporter (600 additional words - 1,200 total)
Choose either an activity or artifact that plays a part in the inequity from your narrative. Use thick description and sensory detail to describe how this activity/artifact functions in relation to inequity within your community.
Planning Notes: Identify a specific activity or artifact connected to your inequity narrative. Pose journalistic questions (who, what, when, where, why, how). Provide detailed, sensory-rich description including what you see, hear, smell, feel, taste. Analyze how this element contributes to or challenges inequity in your community.
Draft Your Observant Reporter Section
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Role 3: Knowledge Maker (1,000 additional words - 2,200 total)
Research your inequity through primary and secondary sources. Consider similar communities, larger trends, root causes, and alternate perspectives. Draw connections between research and your personal experience.
Planning Notes: Research the root causes of your inequity, how other communities experience similar issues, larger social/economic/political structures that contribute, and solutions tried elsewhere. Apply the research honeycomb model to analyze how your personal experience connects to broader academic knowledge. Use proper in-text citations.
Draft Your Knowledge Maker Section
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Your Complete Autoethnography
Use the button below to combine your three drafts, then polish and edit this complete version. Add an introduction, smooth transitions, conclusion, and ensure proper triangulation of your three roles.
Editing Tips: Add an engaging introduction with hook, context, and thesis. Create smooth transitions between sections. Ensure your three roles are triangulated into one coherent argument. Add a conclusion that moves beyond summary to implications and calls for action.
Your Complete Autoethnography (2,200 words)
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Works Cited
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Writing Tips: Remember that autoethnography combines personal narrative with cultural analysis and research. Your goal is to use your individual experience as a lens for understanding broader equity issues while maintaining academic rigor through research integration.