Choosing Readings -- Frisch overview

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Choosing Readings with Working with Numbers as a Primary Method

Frisch, Michael

American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography from The Journal of American History 75 # 4 (March 1989)

Illustrates work with

Serves as starting model for

Could be added to

  •   working with survey data

  •  textual analysis

  •  visual materials

  •  media analysis -- advertisements

An examination of memory and American history among college students and young adults is discussed and a survey taken over eight years is presented. While Frisch’s survey is dated, it offers a method that is easy for students to replicate. The essay also includes a reading of popular culture images because a part of Frisch’s inquiry is whether students know history from the courses they’ve taken or from the popular media they encounter. Thus, the piece combines textual analysis of visual images with survey data.

See class activity on Teaching Reading as a Writer -- Understanding the Assignment using assignment based on this essay as illustration; discussion questions; extra updated data provided by Dr. Frisch; and additional class activities and resources for working with survey assignments.

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