Live Discourse Analysis

Ian Schneider

How can our writing be “worth the reader’s time” when readers don’t read?

This piece is a runaway tangent from a prior post. While I embrace nonlinear writing and…
Creativity, coat closets, and the bland halfway position: A Live Discourse Analysis

Ian: I got an idea for a paper. Claude: Tell me. I’m curious what’s pulling at…
Writing from the encounter’s-eye view.

Repost if your connections would find this interesting: This semester, my encounters in fieldwork work shift…
3 Reasons Why I Love Speech-to-Text as Writing

These days, my YouTube advertising feeds and my favorite YouTubers’ sponsorship pipelines promote text-to-speech software. Whisper…
Staring Myself Down, Owning My Perspective

When I read this quote now, I think about discussions about reflexivity in qualitative research more…
This post was (not) written by AI. And?

Image generated via Microsoft Copilot. I scroll through my LinkedIn feed longer than I should. It…
The checklist tells the story: Reading qualitative research reports through respectability politics

Let’s give Michael Pratt (2008) another go. I remember coming across his article while reading Nguyen…
AI eats academic writing by eating itself. A PhD student watches, waits, and writes.

I saw this article making its rounds on Facebook and LinkedIn as a provocative framing of…
If reading and writing is a burden, then AI is a blessing. If not, AI is a language plague.

I descended into a rabbit hole of qualitative research methodology, spurred on by a reviewer’s to…
Antenarrative and an intertextuality of water

This reading (Boje, 2007) comes from an edited volume on communicative practices in workplaces (Zachry &…