Preliminary Material -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Ethnographic Inspiration -- Additional Writing Guides -- References -- About the Author.

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 developing our ‘graph’skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process. Writing prompts throughout the book encourage the development of manuscripts from start to finish. Appropriate for both new and emerging scholars, Writing Ethnography is a useful text for qualitative methods, research methods courses across disciplines.

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