Why Be Inventive in Writing About Self-Study Research?

• In Event: 25.083 - MTCC Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: 25.083-9 - Writing and Reflection in and Through Self-Study

Abstract

In this paper, we contribute to the rich history of innovation in the self-study research community by exploring why self-study researchers might enact methodological inventiveness in composing written accounts of their scholarly work and analysis. The paper offers a narrative dialogue to illustrate how a transdisciplinary group of emerging self-study scholars engaged with the “why” of methodological inventiveness in writing. The dialogue is followed by a brief analysis of four exemplars of graduate student writing that demonstrate a variety of forms and formats in which emerging self-study researchers are representing and communicating their work. We close by considering the impact – both for and beyond the self.

Authors

• Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, University of KwaZulu-Natal

• Anastasia P. Samaras, George Mason University