Writing Ethnography
This text will be required reading in my research methods courses and for my graduate students because of the meticulous breakdown of writing practice that creates a text that is both useful and engaging.” – Sandra Faulkner, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication, Bowling Green State University a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rotterdam
SensePublishers
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Teaching Writing
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section I: Writing Ethnographically
- A Brief History of Ethnography
- Why Ethnography?
- Creative Nonfiction in Ethnography
- What Makes a Story Great?
- Evocative Storytelling
- Vulnerability in Writing
- Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Writing
- Types of Tales
- Reflexivity
- Audience
- Section II: Narrative Structures
- Story Arcs
- Voice
- Academic Fan Fiction
- Writing the Voices of Our Participants
- First, Second, or Third Person
- Active/Passive
- Adverbs
- Show, Don’t Tell
- Conversations
- Characters
- Metaphorically Speaking
- Vignettes
- On Sounding Smart
- Editing
- Arts-Based Research
- Section III: Linger in the Scene
- Putting Words on the Page.-Writing as Process
- Writing as Inquiry
- Doing the Unstuck
- Integrating the Literature
- What to Call this Thing?
- The Panic Attack
- Framing and Publishing
- Revise and Resubmit
- Writing to Connect, Writing for Social Change
- Appendix I: Ethnographic Inspiration
- Appendix II: Additional Writing Guides
- References
- About the Author