An ethnography of academic writing : on the very idea of an ethnography /

Ethnography has been increasingly adopted by social researchers from many backgrounds in recent years. However, many studies that claim to be ethnographic do not carry out long-duration or extensive fieldwork as in classic anthropological studies. Rather, research in education and linguistic studies...

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Main Author: Smith, Paul Vincent (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] : SAGE, 2014.
Series:SAGE research methods. Cases.
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