Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Self Stories and Academic Life (Routledge Education Classic Edition) (Volume 6)

About this book

Responding to the rapid growth of personal narrative as a method of inquiry among qualitative scholars Bud Goodall offers a concise volume of practical advice for scholars and students seeking to work in this tradition. He provides writing tips and strategies from a well-published successful author of creative nonfiction and concrete guidance on finding appropriate outlets for your work. For readers he offers a set of criteria to assess the quality of creative nonfiction writing. Goodall suggests paths to success within the academystill rife with political sinkholes for the narrative ethnographerand ways of building a career as a public scholar. Goodalls work serves as both a writing manual and career guide for those in qualitative inquiry.