The authors describe the history of autoethnography, particularly within the communication
discipline; discuss key characteristics of autoethnography and identify the purposes of doing …

" This is the best qualitative methods book I've seen, especially among books aimed at
undergraduate audiences."—Michael Irvin Arrington, Indiana State University Qualitative …

This chapter details the authors' approach to understanding and practicing
autoethnography. It begins by defining autoethnography and describing its history and …

Now issued as a Routledge Education Classic Edition, Bud Goodall's Writing Qualitative
Inquiry responds to the rapid growth of personal narrative as a method of inquiry among …

Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times
opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward …

In the past two decades, a growing number of researchers have used qualitative methods to
study various aspects of organizational communication. Researchers have turned to …

Frederick Wiseman has been making documentary films for twenty years; for most of those
twenty years we have been watching the films, teaching them in our classes, and …

“truth” is an issue of public discussion, research, and everyday performance. Processes of
navigating truth, however, are obscure and often unknown. In this project, the authors …

IT is DAUNTING to try to have anything to say about the topic of evidence, explored so
usefully and thoroughly in 1977. Still, the metaphor is enjoyable. It calls to mind somber …

Combining an overview of the history of communication scholarship with lessons learned
from 20 years of experience as a prison abolitionist and peace activist, Hartnett argues that …