Mapping Conceptual Worlds: Using Interpretive Ethnography to Explore Knowledge-Making in a Professional Community

Interpretive ethnography offers a useful avenue for exploring how members of a professional community go about producing and applying specialized written knowledge. Researchers using the methodology to study professional knowledge- making need to maintain a balance of engagement with and detachment from the conceptual world of the community being observed.

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