ABSTRACT
To share your discoveries with the wider community, you need to write and publish your ethnographic research. Using my experiences of conducting research on the Burning Man organization, I describe how to get research through peer review and into print. First, I recommend reading other researchers’ peer reviewed publications not only to learn the content, but also the craft of writing. I then describe where researchers publish and how they tend to sequence their publications. Next, I overview conditions conducive to productive writing: dedicated time to write, forming a supportive community, experimentation with writing, and deciding on a target audience. I then show the writing process for one of my journal manuscripts. I also review what should appear in each section of a journal manuscript: aim to communicate one major idea; provide an evocative and descriptive title; overview your paper in the abstract; introduce your phenomena, state your thesis, and clarify your contributions in the introduction; position your paper via the literature review; explain your methods; flesh out your findings; wrap up in the conclusion. Once your work is in print, publicize it in blogs, newsletters, op-eds, and other venues. Published researchers should contribute by teaching about ethnography and reviewing works.
