Jane F Gilgun Summary

Jane F. Gilgun is a professor from the University of Minnesota, and focuses her research on the violence and behaviours of perpetrators. As an experienced writer, she publishes prolifically, with books and articles widely available on the internet. She teaches me ways of writing, which persuade the audience while maintaining the philosophies of science in qualitative research reporting. She states to hold a strong opinion and bring in emotion to grab attention of the audiences during research reporting. The author starts her article by strongly criticising the current trend of writing in a third-person voice and producing boring qualitative research reports. Some students believe that their writing style is scientific if they make their statements …show more content…
With his students, Small invented models of good research and good writing. He believed that personal testimonies facilitates the audiences of future generations in capturing a lively sense of the 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 study context and participants’ discourses. Such an example can be seen in the Dollard’s study of “castle and class in a southern town”. Because of the high racial discrimination at that time, Dollard was concerned about white men’s view when they saw him with Negroes on his front porch. Such a description of the author’s own experience enables the readers to appreciate the research setting, in particular context of the social structure. Gilgun discusses a recent idea in reflexivity. She suggests the researchers to act as authors very actively in shaping their writing, and co-constructing their representations of interactive processes between researchers and