If you are a social scientist working with qualitative data and you are interested in issues relating to the writing up your data, then this website will be of great interest to you. The Writing Across Boundaries website is dedicated to the support of social science researchers who wish to engage more effectively with the practical and intellectual issues that arise in the quest to produce texts which are engaging, accurate and analytically insightful.

The Project

The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Durham and Newcastle and is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain, under their Researcher Development Initiative.

The Workshops

Details for the 2010 Writing Across Boundaries Workshop are now available online. This year's workshop, Explorations in Representation, Rhetoric and Writing in Qualitative Research, will be held on the 29th and 30th March, 2010, at Grey College, Durham University, UK. The course is residential, and accommodation costs will be covered, but travel costs must by found by participants themselves.

 The workshops are targeted at year three doctoral candidates who have used qualitative methods of data collection and who are at the point of translating this data into written out-put for a thesis or for publication. The Workshop page provides letters for students, supervisors, and a nomination form. 

Resources

On the website you will find resources relating to a variety of themes that engage writers in the social sciences. These include: Drafting and Plotting, the Data-Theory Relationship, Narrative, Rhetoric, and Representation. We have also included a general section containing Hints and Tips on Writing. 

Writing on Writing

Writing on Writing is an initiative in which sees scholars who have made a significant contribution to the social science literature offering personal reflections on the process of writing. The anthropologist, Dame Professor Marilyn Strathern of Cambridge University made the first contribution to the series and this has been followed by contributions from similarly eminent scholars from a wide range of disciplines.

In Postgraduates on Writing, we publish short pieces from research postgraduates on any aspect of the process of writing in doctoral study. We hope that this feature will be a valuable resource for postgraduates engaged in writing their dissertations.

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