Prof. Spencer's assignments:

Intercultural Interview: Write about the culture, the interviewee's identity, and what you have learned about the differences between you/society as a whole.

Microculture: 

• discuss why the chosen group is a microculture
• analyze the negotiations between this cultural group and the larger, mainstream culture in the U.S.

• use "quotation marks" around phrases, e.g., "Beachy Amish"
• truncate - shorten a word to its trunk or root to get alternate endings - with an asterisk * (shift 8), e.g., cultur* finds culture, cultures, cultural
• apply Boolean connector AND to combine unlike ideas, e.g., Amish AND identity
• apply Boolean connector OR to connect synonyms, e.g., Anabaptists OR Mennonites

Put it all together:

• "Beachy Amish" in one box
• AND (identity OR cultur* OR microculture) in the next box
• use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
• "Beachy Amish" AND (identity OR cultur* OR microculture)

Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.

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