Making qualitative research reports less boring: The techniques of writing creative nonfiction

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 424-449

  Caulley, N Darrel ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arts based qualitative research; Creative nonfiction; Fiction writing techniques; Reporting qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349114238     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800407311961     Document Type: Article

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