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Characters

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Writing Ethnography

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I’ve mentioned characters a number of times, so let’s spend some time exploring how to write compelling characters. We tend to think of characters as people in fictional worlds, but in the case of writing ethnography, we can think of characters as the people you interacted with in the course of your research.

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Gullion, J.S. (2016). Characters. In: Writing Ethnography. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-381-0_20

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