Creative Writing for Social Research: A Practical Guide

Front cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Creative writing in practice
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
	Definitions
		Social research
		Creativity and creative
		Writing and creative writing
	Synergies between creative writing and social research
	What follows
2. Doing creative writing
	Introduction
	Doing it yourself: getting started
		Reading for writing
		Small steps and time frames
		Warm-up exercises
	Putting yourself in the picture
		Writing in the first person
		Diaries and journals
	Observation and description
		Autoethnography
		Observational writing and the implied observer
		Stories and storying
		Collecting and transcribing stories
	Writing about ideas: essays and lists
		Essays
		Lists and listing
	Doing it yourself: following through
		Drafting and editing
		Seeking and receiving feedback
		Writing together
3. Doing research, generating data, working with participants
	Introduction
		Rationale
		Ethics
	Getting started: participatory creative writing for social research
		What is a participant?
		How to invite or recruit participants
	Workshops and groups
		How to draw participants together into a cohesive group
		Playful workshops
		Getting started, warming up
		How to write, review and revise together: workshopping
		Scope
	Working with individuals
		Varying roles for participants and facilitators
	Data and findings: process and product
		Observing and documenting the creative writing process
		Product: outputs and impacts
4. Exploring and articulating findings
	Introduction
	Data analysis
		Fiction in data analysis
		Poetry in data analysis
		Play and screenplay writing in data analysis
	Dissemination
		Visual methods of writing for dissemination
		Performance for dissemination
		Comedy in dissemination
	Finding and telling stories; storying
5. Searching and queer(ing) writing
	Introduction
	Searching
	Queer(ing) writing
References
Index
Back cover