FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research

461 Pages·2012·5.287 MB·English

by  Bonnie Stone Sunstein, Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater

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FieldWorking
Reading and Writing Research
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FOURTH EDITION
FieldWorking
Reading and Writing Research
Bonnie Stone Sunstein
University of Iowa
Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater
University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Implicit in this book is our philosophy of teaching:
that teaching is a way of learning. We dedicate this book
to all the students who have been our teachers.
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About the Authors
Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater
have been collaborators and friends for a long time.
They hope you’ll notice, while reading this book, that
they enjoy working together.
During the school year, Bonnie is professor of art)
both English and education at the University of Iowa, w
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where she teaches courses in nonfi ction writing, y St
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research methods, English education, and folklore. n
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She is the director of undergraduate writing in the
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English department, coordinates the English Edu- ot
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cation Program in the Department of Teaching and P
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Learning, and is a faculty member in the Language,
Literacy, and Culture PhD program. Elizabeth is professor of English and
women and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
where she teaches courses in nonfi ction writing, research methods, rhetoric,
and composition. She develops programs in writing across the curriculum, and
served as director of Freshman Composition.
Bonnie and Elizabeth were each writing teachers long before they met as
PhD students at the University of New Hampshire. They discovered that they
shared a fascination with ethnographic fi eldwork and began their work together
on many writing and research processes by taking and teaching courses, design-
ing and giving workshops, and consulting with teachers and students in second-
ary schools and colleges. They still belong to the same writing group.
Together, they have taught in summer programs at the University of New
Hampshire, the Smithsonian Institution, and Northeastern University’s Martha’s
Vineyard Summer Institute. They often present their work together at profes-
sional conferences and workshops. They’ve authored four editions of FieldWork-
ing as well as a book for teachers, What Works: A Practical Guide for Teacher
Research (Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 2006), and several articles and book chap-
ters. Separately, Bonnie and Elizabeth have written chapters and articles about
ethnographic writing, portfolio-keeping, and, of course, collaboration. Bonnie’s
book Composing a Culture (Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1994) and Elizabeth’s
book Academic Literacies (Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1991) are ethnographic
fi eld studies of writing communities.
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