Thursday, May 14, 2009

Laurel Richardson: Styles of Writing Reflect Historically Shifting Domination of Particular Schools or Paradigms

Producing “things” always involves value—what to produce, what to name the productions, and what the relationship between the producers and the named things will be. Writing “things” is no exception. No textual staging is ever innocent. Styles of writing are neither fixed nor neutral but reflect historically shifting domination of particular schools or paradigms.

--Richardson, Laurel. 1994 ‘Writing a Method of Inquiry’ in Denzin, Norman, K., and Lincoln Yvonne, S., (eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Sage, Thousand Oaks California pp.516-529.

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