Jane F. Gilgun Summary

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Jane F. Gilgun is a professor from the University of Minnesota, and focuses her research on the violence and behaviours of perpetrators. Being a good writer, she publishes a pile of books and articles which are widely available on the internet. She teaches me ways of writing which persuade the audiences and maintain the philosophies of science in producing qualitative research reporting. She states to hold strong opinion and bring in emotion to grab attention of the audiences during research reporting. The author starts her article by mentioning the current trend of writing in a third-person voice and producing boring qualitative research report. She strongly criticises such a form of ‘boring’ writing. Some students believe that their writing…show more content…
With his students, Small invented models of good research and good writing. He believes that personal testimonies facilitates the audiences of future generations in capturing lively sense of research context. Reflexivity means to write self into the report through visual texts. For me, it is a kind of critical writing that reflects the researcher’s understanding on the studying context and participants’ discourses. Such an example can be seen in the Dolard’s study of “castle and class in a southern town”. Because of the high racial discrimination at that time, Dollard had his concern on white men’s view when they saw him with Negroes on his front porch. Such a describing the author’s own experience enables the readers capturing the research context and have an empathy over the chronological social structure. The author states one of the recent thoughts in reflexivity. It mentions that researchers shape any piece of writing, irrespective of the voices of the participants (P.258). Such a statement may lead to misconception of allowing the researcher’s bias in data interpretation. Researchers have ethical obligation to be honest and not to go beyond the participants’ experiences in describing the experiences of

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