Writing the New Ethnography

Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences. Goodall's distinctive style will engage and energize students, offering them provocative advice and exercises for turning qualitative data and field notes into compelling representations of social life.

List of contents

Chapter 1 On Becoming an Ethnographer in the Academy Chapter 2 Finding the Story in Ethnographic Words Chapter 3 Representing Ethnographic Experiences: From Fieldwork to Fieldnotes to Stories Chapter 4 Voice, Reflexivity, and Character: The Construction of Identities in Texts Chapter 5 The Ethics of Writing Ethnography Chapter 6 The Future of New Ethnographic Writing

About the author

By H. L. Goodall Jr.

Summary

This text provides a foundational understanding of the writing process associated with innovative forms of ethnographic writing. It offers advice, examples, and exercises for every step in the ethnographic writng process, including field observations, notes, narrative development, and editing.

Product details

• Authors: H L Goodall, H. L. Goodall, H. L. Jr. Goodall, H. Lloyd Goodall, H.L. Goodall
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2000
• EAN: 9780742503397
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0339-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Ethnographic Alternatives; Ethnographic Alternatives
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries