how to write

• assume that your reader knows nothing

  • …of the text

• you need to explain your argument clearly

• hold the reader by the hand and take him/her step-by-step through the readings, the story (the ethnography) and your argument

• show that you know and understand

how to write ethnographically

• ethnographic writing is heavy lifting

• concept matters only if they are grounded in ethnographic description

  • eg using examples to depict your argument » experiences, conversations, etc but must not talk about opinions, only interpretations

• analyse n discuss, but also describe n explain

  • how am I reading the texts?

  • originality n subjectivity to reading texts

• ethnography matters