Writing Ethnography / by Jessica Smartt Gullion.
The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. While ethnographers inevitably write up their findings from the field, many ethnography textbooks focus more on the ‘ethno’ portion of our craft, and less on developi...
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| Superior document: | Teaching Writing |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Teaching Writing
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (149 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.