Writing Ethnography

The Teaching Writing seriespublishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Whileethnographers inevitably write up their findings from the field, manyethnography textbooks focus more on the ethno portion of our craft, and lesson developing our graph skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographerswrite compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting thefirst few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, WritingEthnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process. Writingprompts throughout the book encourage the development of manuscripts from startto finish. Appropriate for both new and emerging scholars, Writing Ethnographyis a useful text for qualitative methods, research methods courses acrossdisciplines. This is a must read for anyone whois learning about ethnography and is unsure about how to start writing. Kakali Bhattacharya, PhD, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, KansasState University I love this writer because shedoes her homework, cares about her readers, and writes a damn good story. Buythis book immediately. Anne Harris, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Education,Monash University and author of Critical Plays: Embodied Research for SocialChange and The Creative Turn: Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary In this foundational text, Gullionaccomplishes the herculean task of talking about the overlooked process ofethnographic writing with an intimate tone. It is like we are seated at herdesk writing along with her. This text will be required reading in my researchmethods courses and for my graduate students because of the meticulousbreakdown of writing practice that creates a text that is both useful andengaging. Sandra Faulkner, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication,Bowling Green State University and author of Family Stories, Poetry, andWomen s Work and Poetry as Method: Reporting Research Through VerseJessica Smartt Gullion, PhD, isAssistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty of Women s Studies atTexas Woman s University. She has published more than thirty peer-reviewedjournal articles and book chapters, in journals such as Qualitative Inquiry,the International Review of Qualitative Research, and the Journal of AppliedSocial Science. She has also written twoadditional books, Fracking theNeighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling with the MIT Pressand October Birds: A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, andFirst Responders, which is part of the award-winning Social Fictions Serieswith Sense Publishers.