Group Healthcare Narrative Template

 

Title (bold)

• Opening Vignette setting the mood and introducing your audience to an iconic scene in your fieldsite 
• make sure at least one of your themes is illustrated in the vignette
• quotations should be minimal in a vignette if at all

• Providers' perspectives
• begin with a short evocative quote (single sentence) --name (heading), or a mini vignette
• Introduce your analysis of the provider's perspective on challenges to access 
• Illustrate your analysis with quotations and interspersed thick descriptions which introduce your "characters"
• analyze each illustration  and support your analysis with citation from text or your research if appropriate. Cite this in Chicago style.
• Make sure you 

• Clients' perspectives (repeat)

• Concluding analysis
• summarize your themes
• summarize your analysis
• Make sure that you utilize the TEXT especially in this section.
• conclude with a powerful quote that sums up the issue of unequal access to healthcare at your site.

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General principles for writing ethnography to remember:

1. We are not writing ABOUT our fieldwork or OUR experiences or what WE learned. We are using our fieldwork as data to illustrate our findings in evocative ways that promote both EMPATHY and understanding.
2. DESCRIBE things so that your reader can EXPERIENCE the cultural scene as you did. The idea is to have your audience have an EXPERIENCE not that you tell them what is going on. (Show me don't tell me)
3. Remember when you can to use the paralinguistic information in your quotations (not in transcription form but in description). This is a way to keep your thick description throughout the text and not just in vignettes. Make the writing flow.
4. Develop you CHARACTERS. Use thick description to do this and introduce them in action (what they are doing in the fieldsite). These descriptions should reveal important facts about the individual that help the reader both empathize with them, and understand their place in the cultural scene.
5. Tell a story from the perspective of your informants. You are simply the tour guide.
6. Cite supporting research in Chicago style.