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

by Bishop, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780867094862
• ISBN10: 0867094869
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-06
• Publisher: HEINEMANN (T)

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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