ABSTRACT
Now we have looked at some features involved in the designing and undertaking of communication research we can move to considerations about writing. We haven’t taken the obvious route here and extracted from any number of books which offer solid gold guidelines for writing up research or handbooks on effective report writing. (Although if you do want to read a succinct overview of the whole research process read ‘Working Practices’ by Michael Green which is Chapter 10 of Jim McGuigan (1997) Cultural Methodologies , London: Sage.) Rather we’re here concerned with communication in practice, with specific audiences, for specific purposes, to achieve specific effects. And for that reason we’re drawing on journalistic and novelistic communication practices.
