Because It Was Never Just Words

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ID17826617
AuthorsSusan Nordstrom (0000-0002-5102-2053, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue2
Pages73-78
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.2.73
OpenAlexW4379514451
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

This poem, written after my writing was plagiarized, heeds Bowers’s (1994) call to use language, rather than silence, to express the emotions associated with the plagiarism of my work. I write how the act of plagiarism cut into my core and created a wound. That wound opened a space to see how, like Bowers (1997), my writing and creative process are deeply personal. They are inquiry (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2018). And they matter more than I ever knew. They are a life. A life that is healed with the writing of this poem. The poem and brief methodological note that follow it aim to open conversations about plagiarism in the qualitative inquiry literature

Aesthetics · Art · Creative writing · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Silence · Sociology · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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