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Creative Writing for Social Research : A Practical Guide
Inviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission, but also shows them how, to write cre...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Creative writing in practice
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Definitions
- Social research
- Creativity and creative
- Writing and creative writing
- Synergies between creative writing and social research
- What follows
- 2. Doing creative writing
- Introduction
- Doing it yourself: getting started
- Reading for writing
- Small steps and time frames
- Warm-up exercises
- Putting yourself in the picture
- Writing in the first person
- Diaries and journals
- Observation and description
- Autoethnography
- Observational writing and the implied observer
- Stories and storying
- Collecting and transcribing stories
- Writing about ideas: essays and lists
- Essays
- Lists and listing
- Doing it yourself: following through
- Drafting and editing
- Seeking and receiving feedback
- Writing together
- 3. Doing research, generating data, working with participants
- Introduction
- Rationale
- Ethics
- Getting started: participatory creative writing for social research
- What is a participant?
- How to invite or recruit participants
- Workshops and groups
- How to draw participants together into a cohesive group
- Playful workshops
- Getting started, warming up
- How to write, review and revise together: workshopping
- Scope
- Working with individuals
- Varying roles for participants and facilitators
- Data and findings: process and product
- Observing and documenting the creative writing process
- Product: outputs and impacts
- 4. Exploring and articulating findings
- Introduction
- Data analysis
- Fiction in data analysis
- Poetry in data analysis
- Play and screenplay writing in data analysis
- Dissemination
- Visual methods of writing for dissemination
- Performance for dissemination
- Comedy in dissemination
- Finding and telling stories
- storying
- 5. Searching and queer(ing) writing
- Introduction
- Searching
- Queer(ing) writing
- References
- Index
- Back cover