Writing Ethnography / Teaching Writing (PDF)

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.

"This is a must read for anyone who
is learning about ethnography and is unsure about how to start writing." -
Kakali Bhattacharya, PhD, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas
State University

"I love this writer because she
does her homework, cares about her readers, and writes a damn good story. Buy
this book immediately." - Anne Harris, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Education,
Monash University and author of Critical Plays: Embodied Research for Social
Change and The Creative Turn: Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary

"In this foundational text, Gullion
accomplishes the herculean task of talking about the overlooked process of
ethnographic writing with an intimate tone. It is like we are seated at her
desk writing along with her. This text will be required reading in my research
methods courses and for my graduate students because of the meticulous
breakdown of writing practice that creates a text that is both useful and
engaging." - Sandra Faulkner, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication,
Bowling Green State University and author of Family Stories, Poetry, and
Women's Work and Poetry as Method: Reporting Research Through Verse

Jessica Smartt Gullion, PhD, is
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty of Women's Studies at
Texas Woman's University. She has published more than thirty peer-reviewed
journal articles and book chapters, in journals such as Qualitative Inquiry,
the International Review of Qualitative Research, and the Journal of Applied
Social Science. She has also written two additional books, Fracking the
Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling with the MIT Press
and October Birds: A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and
First Responders, which is part of the award-winning Social Fictions Series
with Sense Publishers.