Ethnographic Writing Research : Writing It

The primary goal of Ethnographic Writing Research is to help you conduct your day-to-day research - whether it means developing an informal classroom report, writing a dissertation prospectus and study, or participating in local, civic literacy research.

Kellogg Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, WENDY BISHOP teaches composition and rhetoric and creative writing. She is the author or editor of a number of books, essays, and articles on composition and creative writing pedagogy and writing research.

Acknowledgments and Introduction

ix

Defining It

1

(29)

Writing Research: The 1960s to the 1980s

7

(5)

The Move to Ethnographic Approaches: the 1980s and 1990s

12

(3)

Back to Defining It

15

(15)

Understanding the Process: A Global View

30

(27)

General Design Issues

31

(10)

Theoretical Issues and Design

41

(8)

Practical Issues: Actually Designing It

49

(8)

Getting There and Being There in Person

57

(35)

Getting There: Asking, Giving, and Receiving

58

(14)

Being There is Person: Looking, Talking, and Collecting

72

(20)

Understanding the Process: Local Views

92

(32)

Interviewing in Some (More) Detail

94

(16)

Constructing Surveys and Questionnaires

110

(2)

Coding, Data Reduction, and Data Displays

112

(7)

Sharing Data with Informants

119

(5)

Writing It Up

124

(32)

One Eye to the Future: General Writing Issues

126

(15)

Turning and Returning to Triangulation as Process: Thick Description and Case-Study Reporting

141

(5)

Looking Twice as Hard as We Thought We Could: Ethical Representation and Reporting

146

(4)

Whose Voice Is It Anyway: Educational Ethnographer as Author

150

(2)

Conventions and Your Community: Research Reports as (Im)Pure Products of the Certification Process

152

(4)

Reading Ethnographic Writing Research

156

(24)

Responding to and Evaluating Ethnographic Writing Research

156

(18)

Reading the Article, Essay, or Book Chapter

174

(1)

Reading Experimental Texts

175

(2)

Reading the Ethnographic Dissertation or Grant-Funded Report

177

(3)

Afterword: Taking It Back (Home) and on to the Next Project

180

(5)

Appendix A: A Prospectus Writing Sequence

185

(16)

Donna N. Sewell

Prewriting and Planning

185

(4)

The Dissertation Prospectus

189

(12)

Appendix B: Mini-Ethnographies

201

(56)

Considering Feminism, Pedagogy, and Underlife

201

(17)

Devan Cook

Entering the Gray Area: Accepting Authority in a Pre-1101 Composition Class

218

(14)

Ellen Schendel

Poetic Technique: An Ethnographic Study

232

(25)

Patricia Hendricks

Bibliography

257

(14)

Index

271

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Ethnographic Writing Research : Writing It Down, Writing It Up, and Reading It

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