FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research, 4th Edition

by Bonnie Stone Sunstein, Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater

A fun and practical guide to research and writing, FieldWorking includes examples by professional writers such as Peter Elbow and Joan Didion alongside student research projects on communities to help empower you to observe, listen, interpret, analyze, and write about the people and artifacts around you.

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks

464 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2011

Reviews

[Liz]

As textbooks go, this is an excellent text for introducing writing studies students to ethnographic research. Best of all--it's short and not expensive

[KT]

A useful guide to fieldwork with plenty of practical examples, particularly around double entry record/respond note taking as a form of exploratory writing and advice on creating a writing voice

[Loren]

I had to buy the custom University of Oklahoma version for my Composition I. English class; so it was considerably shorter than the original, extended edition. It was rather wordy, but very interesting, informative, and even inspiring at times.

[Yuli]

Helped me tremendously not only to prepare for fieldwork, but also to develop my initial research idea. And of course this is one of these books you keep at reach and occasionally look through to refresh certain things in your memory or seek inspiration.