TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: So You Want to Be a Qualitative Researcher Who Tells Interesting Stories

• The Power of Story
• Narrative Ways of Knowing: Writing and Epistemology
• From My Story to Your Stories and Your Academic Lives
• Notes

Chapter 1: The 5 Rs of Narrative Writing

• How I Came to the Narrative Epistemic
• Real Life Stories: Representation, Evocation, and Framing
• Reflection: Reflexivity in the Storyline
• ’Riting in Scenes: Thick Description
• The Final Two “Rs”: Research and Reading
• Activities and Questions
• Notes

Chapter 2: Fingers on the Keyboard: Developing Narrative Structures

• The Writing Process: Two Rules and Four Steps
• The Set-Up: Narrative Beginnings
• Middles
• The Pay-Off: Endings
• Activities and Questions
• Notes

Chapter 3: Submitting Narrative Work to Academic Journals and Academic Presses

• Old School
• Preamble: Do You Know the Importance of Format?
• First Submission Question: What Is Your Narrative about?
• Second Submission Question: Who Is Your Audience?
• Questions about the Academic Publication Process: Responses by Norman Denzin
• Third Submission Question: How Do You Get an Editor Interested in Your Work?
• Interlude: The Five Commandments of the Academic Publication Process
• Fourth Submission Question: What Is Really Meant by Revise and Resubmit?
• Fifth Submission Question: How Do I Write the Academic Book Proposal?
• Conclusion
• Activities and Questions
• Notes

Chapter 4: Reading and Evaluating Narrative Scholarship: From Appreciation to Contribution

• What I Did on My Summer Vacation
• Narratives as Evidence
• What Do Critical Readers Want? Or, What Makes a Narrative Good?
• Left Tackles and Chemistry: The Importance of (Some) Writing Groups
• Writing as Activism/Action
• Activities and Questions
• Notes

Chapter 5: Success in the Academy

• The Attempted Murder of a Creative Nonfictionist: A Cautionary Tale
• Tenure
• How to Prepare a Tenure and Promotion Portfolio
• Summing Up: What’s Your Story and Who’s Your Audience?
• Activities and Questions
• Notes

Chapter 6: Success beyond the Academy: Becoming a Public Scholar

• Going Public, Then
• Going Public, Now
• Constructing the Academic and Trade/Crossover Author Self
• Audiences and Communities beyond the Academy
• Crafting and Marketing a Web Identity
• Concluding Remarks: The World Needs Our Stories
• Activities and Questions
• Notes

References 

Index 

About the Author