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People have conversations, and including conversations in your writing gives the reader additional clues about the people and events in your story. “If you want to tell a true story,” Hart (2011: 129) writes, “your readers should hear your characters talk to one another.”
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Gullion, J.S. (2016). Conversations. In: Writing Ethnography. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-381-0_19
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