ABSTRACT

The least discussed voice in research is We, the community of scholars and the general public who will read your research. You’ve thought about the multiplicity of the context and constrained it in some way to enjoy and learn from its singularity. You’ve selected and conducted your research based on your positionality, and you’re consciously and openly going to present it as a narrative. Now you have to make it more than “just your interpretation.” You have to convince readers that your work is reputable and worthwhile. You have to give them the tools to dispute with you and to make your work applicable to other contexts. You have to consider your work’s contestability and extendability, and you have to answer the questions that each demands: How will you challenge your interpretations and make them scientific, and how will you make the case that your research is broadly significant and worth paying attention to?