TY - BOOK AU - Emerson, Robert M. AU - Fretz, Rachel I. AU - Shaw, Linda L. TI - Writing ethnographic fieldnotes SN - 9780226206837 AV - GN307.7 .W75 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press, KW - Ethnology KW - Authorship. KW - Fieldwork KW - Ethnology KW - Research N1 - Fieldnotes in ethnographic research -- In the field : participating, observing, and jotting notes -- Writing fieldnotes. 1, At the desk, creating scenes on a page -- Writing fieldnotes. 2, Multiple purposes and stylistic options -- Pursuing members' meanings -- Processing fieldnotes : coding and memoing -- Writing an ethnography N2 - Presents a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings. This title discusses different organizational and descriptive strategies and shows how transforming direct observations into descriptions results not simply from good memory but from learning to envision scenes as written ER -