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WRITING ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDNOTES SECOND EDITION ...

In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes  Robert M. Emerson  Rachel I. Fretz  and Linda L. Shaw
present a series of guidelines  suggestions  and practical advice for creating useful
fieldnotes in a variety of settings  demystifying a process that is often assumed to be
intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples  the authors
illustrate options for composing  reviewing  and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They
discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies and show how transforming direct
observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but from learning to
envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer  they demonstrate  must learn to remember
dialogue and movement like an actor  to see colors and shapes like a painter  and to sense
moods and rhythms like a poet. This new edition reflects the extensive feedback the authors
have received from students and instructors since the first edition was published in 1995. As a
result  they have updated the race  class  and gender section  created new sections on coding
programs and revising first drafts  and provided new examples of working notes. An essential
tool for budding social scientists  the second edition of Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes will
be invaluable for a new generation of researchers entering the field.

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