Introduction

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.

Writing Tips and Strategies

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.

Criteria for Creative Nonfiction

For readers, he offers a set of criteria to assess the quality of creative nonfiction writing.

Paths to Success

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.

Work as a Manual and Guide

Goodall’s work serves as both a writing manual and career guide for those in qualitative inquiry.