Afterwords

Summary:
Ashley Brown

1. In this Chapter Nathan reflects on her book. She explains the pieces that she left out, the reasons why and numerous other things. Nathan explains how she conducted her research, and why she did it the way she did. Reflecting on her data, Nathan comes to conclusions about freshman in college. Nathan also explains how with one of her interviews of a college student, she told the student that she was actually a professor. Nathan goes further into depth about the interview, and explains to the reader that she is still good friends with the person she interviewed.

2. Writing this section of the book, Nathan uses three perspectives, anthropologist, professor and student out look. Nathan writes the end of the book in a more analytical way, not necessarily with numbers, but with her words and the ways he explains things. She makes many connections from all of her observations, data collection and surveys.

Vocab:
By Nicki Woitas

I could not get together a list of 10 vocab words, so I found an article that relates to the book instead. Towards the end of the book, Nathan addresses the issue of cheating and gives statistics and students' opinions, but I wanted to read more about teachers' opinions on the subject, that's what this article is about.

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5000198166

Discussion Questions:
By Catherine Wagner

Q1. The last section of Nathan's book is all about her experience at anyU as a student and why she did the research that she did. Why do you think it was so important to keep her identity closed to outsiders? Why was it that no one could know what she was actually doing in her research?

Q2. As a reader why do you think that Nathan goes back and questions herself as to why or why not she should have or shouldn't have done some of the research that she did?

Q3. Nathan admits that she wrote with no rules in mind, such as listening in on certain conversations and not telling students she was writing about her research. How do you as a reader think that it would have been different if she had written with these things in mind?

Q4. Throughout Nathan's research do you think that she ever broke or twisted the rule of not ever lieing straight out to students who ever asked her what she was doing?