Democratizing Academic Writing: A Revision of an Experience of Writing an Autoethnographic Dissertation in Color

Autor/in	Polanco, Marcela
Titel	Democratizing Academic Writing: A Revision of an Experience of Writing an Autoethnographic Dissertation in Color
Quelle	In: Qualitative Report, 18 (2013), Artikel 33 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-0147
Schlagwörter	Academic Standards; Therapy; Ethnography; Autobiographies; Indigenous Knowledge; Family Counseling; Gender Differences; Story Telling; Academic Discourse; Writing (Composition); Hispanic Americans; Cultural Differences; Aesthetics; Females; Counselor Training; Doctoral Dissertations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Therapie; Ethnografie; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Family counselling; Familienberatung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Discourse; Diskurs; Schreibübung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Kultureller Unterschied; Ästhetik; Weibliches Geschlecht; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift
Abstract	In this paper, I revise my experience of writing an autoethnographic (Ellis, 2004) dissertation in the field of family therapy as a Colombian mestiza. I discuss how I grappled with my writing, and, in the process, stumbled into matters of democratizing texts. I problematize male-dominant academic standards, telling of the tensions when maneuvering at marking cultural and gender differences in my text. I focus on the storywriting of my storytelling when writing aesthetic, evocative, and emotional stories as a woman of color, at the intersection between autobiography and ethnography (Ellis, 2004). I discern elements of my handicraft as an artisan autoethnographer in training, taking from my local knowledge and family therapy training, in particular narrative therapy (White & Epston, 1990). I include excerpts of my dissertation to illustrate how my narrative therapy practices, intermingled with my cultural storytelling traditions, assisted me in shaping my idiosyncratic autoethnographic stories. I hope to add to the diversification of writing in the academia to make it more democratic and accessible; and to continue conversations about alternative ways to go about it. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10