Week 6 Interviewing

Week 6

Writing: ethnography and the argumentative empirical study

 

Topics

Creative reading, creative writing

Writing up: making arguments flow from the data

Interpretation, pre-existing theories and assumptions

 

Readings:            

Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz and Linda L. Shaw (1995): Writing an Ethnography. In: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995): 166-210.

Recommended readings

Hammersley, Martyn and Paul Atkinson (1983): The Process of Analysis. In: Ibid: Ethnography: Principles and Practice. London: Routledge 23-53.

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