Writing Ethnography

by Jessica Smartt Gullion

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. 
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 Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling with the MIT Press and October A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and First Responders , which is part of the award-winning Social Fictions Series with Sense Publishers.

170 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016