Call it personal narrative, creative nonfiction or qualitative inquiry, this genre has become increasingly dynamic and complex in the past few decades, developing and discarding new traditions at a rapid clip. Goodall (human communication, Arizona State U.) corrals the best of those traditions and combined them with sound advice for those seeking to make a living from their scholarship. He considers the academic side of that living, and clearly delineates the sinkholes therein, while giving readers ways to break into public scholarship as well. He describes the power of the interesting story, the basics of the narrative epistemic, and methods of developing narrative structures that work within the framework of the academic. This works as a model as well as a guide to both process and career options, and includes a number of exercises suitable for the classroom as well as self-study. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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.
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 academy—still rife with political sinkholes for the narrative ethnographer—and ways of building a career as a public scholar. Goodall’s work serves as both a writing manual and career guide for those in qualitative inquiry.
| Preface: So You Want to Be a Qualitative Researcher Who Tells Interesting Stories? |
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Narrative Ways of Knowing: Writing and Epistemology |
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From My Story to Your Stories and Your Academic Lives |
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| Chapter 1: The 5 Rs of Narrative Writing |
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How I Came to the Narrative Epistemic |
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Real Life Stories: Representation, Evocation, and Framing |
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Reflection: Reflexivity in the Storyline |
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'Riting in Scenes: Thick Description |
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The Final Two "Rs": Research and Reading |
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| Chapter 2: Fingers on the Keyboard Developing Narrative Structures |
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The Writing Process: Two Rules and Four Steps |
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The Set-Up: Narrative Beginnings |
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| Chapter 3: Submitting Narrative Work to Academic Journals and Academic Presses |
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Preamble: Do You Know the Importance of Format? |
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First Submission Question: What Is Your Narrative about? |
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Second Submission Question: Who Is Your Audience? |
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Questions about the Academic Publication Process: Responses by Norman Denzin |
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Third Submission Question: How Do You Get an Editor Interested in Your Work? |
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Interlude: The Five Commandments of the Academic Publication Process, Without Elaboration |
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Fourth Submission Question: What Is Really Meant by Revise and Resubmit? |
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Fifth Submission Question: How Do I Write the Academic Book Proposal? |
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| Chapter 4: Reading and Evaluating Narrative Scholarship: From Appreciation to Contribution |
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation |
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What Do Critical Readers Want? Or, What Makes a Narrative Good? |
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Left Tackles and Chemistry: The Importance of (Some) Writing Groups |
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Writing as Activism/Action |
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| Chapter 5: Success in the Academy |
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The Attempted Symbolic Kill of a Storyteller: A Cautionary Tale |
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How to Prepare a Tenure and Promotion Portfolio |
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Summing Up: What's Your Story and Who's Your Audience? |
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| Chapter 6: Success beyond the Academy: Becoming a Public Scholar |
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Constructing the Academic and Trade/Crossover Author Self |
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Audiences and Communities beyond the Academy |
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Crafting and Marketing a Web Identity |
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Concluding Remarks: The World Needs Our Stories |
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| References |
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| Index |
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| About the Author |
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H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr. is professor of communication and director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author or coauthor of twenty books, including A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family (Left Coast Press, 2006), which won the Best Book of 2007 award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association, as well as over 150 articles, chapters, and papers.A pioneer in the field of narrative ethnography, he introduced the detective metaphor to study high technology organizations and cultures in Casing a Promised Land: The Autobiography of an Organizational Detective as Cultural Ethnographer (Southern Illinois University Press, 1989); toured and played rhythm guitar in the Whitedog band to investigate rock and roll as a social theory of everyday working life in Living in the Rockn Roll Mystery: Reading Context, Self, and Others as Clues (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991); and went undercover to explore alternative forms of religion and spirituality in the southern region of the United States in Divine Signs: Connecting Spirit to Community (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996). With Eric Eisenberg and Angela Trethewey, he is the coauthor of the award-winning best textbook, Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint (Bedford/St. Martins, 2007), now in its fifth edition, and he authored the highly acclaimed Writing the New Ethnography (AltaMira Press, 2000). In 2003, he was awarded the Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship, an honor bestowed to scholars for their work over a 20-year span of time.His most recent public scholarship applies theories of communication and narratives to the challenge of countering ideological support for terrorism. In that role, he has served as a U.S. Department of State international speaker.He is married to the histori
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