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Abstract

How do social science writers perceive writing today? What more can writing do beyond attempting to represent or reflect something in the world that a researcher has “discovered” through traditional empirical research? The act of writing may itself give rise to research, with the ideas awakening in the writer’s mind as sentences are strung together, either slowly and laboriously or all of a sudden as the words jostle their way onto the page. As a method or a way of thinking, writing is experimental and creative. Writers lose themselves and are carried away by and in their writing; they become alongside the text as it flows into a future to come that we are still incapable of fathoming or inhabiting

Keywords

• research
• experimental writing
• creative writing
• method
• way of thinking