ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an array of ethnographic and samples written in different styles. It discusses four different writing styles that can be applied to autoethnography: descriptive-realistic, confessional-emotive, analytical-interpretive, and imaginative-creative. Ellis sees autoethnographic writings as not only descriptive narratives but also creative products. Autoethnography is interpretive in a sense that your personal perspectives are added in all steps of research, whether in data collection where certain memories are selected, in data analysis where certain themes are probed, or in data interpretation where certain meanings are searched. Although Foltz and Griffin work does not focus on autoethnography per se, the authors understand that the involvement of self legitimizes the insertion of personal interpretation especially in postmodern ethnographic writings: Postmodern ethnographers reject the concept of "objective truth" and remind us that writing ethnography is cultural construction, not cultural reporting.
