Me-search and re-search : a guide for writing scholarly personal narrative manuscripts

What we intend to do in this book is to explain, and exemplify, in a nuts-and-bolts way, what we are calling Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) writing. This is a genre created over 15 years ago by Robert, one of the co-authors of this book. The other co-author, DeMethra, has actually written a thes...

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Main Authors Nash, Robert J. (Author), Bradley, DeMethra LaSha (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
Subjects
Authorship.
Academic writing.
Report writing > Study and teaching.
Critical thinking > Study and teaching.
Education > Research.
Education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616626
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-395-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Setting the stage for writing an spn
  • Chapter 1. What our book is about
  • Chapter 2. Why can't I write more personally, more honestly?
  • Chapter 3. Autoethnographies, memoirs, personal narrative essays, autobiographies
  • Chapter 4. Okay then! What exactly is scholarly personal narrative writing?
  • Part II. The four components of spn: Pre-search, me-search, re-search, we-search
  • Chapter 5. How do you get started?
  • Chapter 6. Demethra's pre-search dissertation process
  • Chapter 7. Speaking to all the me-search self-doubters
  • Chapter 8. Tell your story, speak your truth
  • Chapter 9. The spn way to think about research
  • Chapter 10. The relationship of art to truth in spn writing
  • Chapter 11. The centrality of theme-search in spn research
  • Chapter 12. Moving from the pre-, the me-, and the re-, to the we
  • Chapter 13. Demethra's use of we-search and universalizability in her dissertation
  • Part III. The nuts and bolts spn toolbox
  • Chapter 14. The nuts and bolts spn toolbox
  • Part IV. Additional resources for spn writers
  • Chapter 15. Our spn course syllabus
  • Chapter 16. Putting it all together
  • Chapter 17. How to deal with pspnd syndrome
  • Chapter 18. Creating an spn code of ethics
  • Chapter 19. How to create faculty support for spn writing
  • References.

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