The Art of Reading Widely Within and Beyond Academia

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ID21206230
AuthorsShanita Bigelow (0000-0002-7396-1537, Independent scholar/reseacher, Chicago, Illinois, USA, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume18
Issue1
Pages12-24
Publication date2025-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/19408447251319422
OpenAlexW4407384153
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

ire’ne lara silva wrote “everything must be a little wild.” Reading should also be done with the entirety/wideness of being. In this article—which seeks to showcase/highlight the promise and responsibilities inherent in reading and writing—I chronicle what it can mean to read widely and wildly for academic purposes and beyond. I argue that scholarship is and can be an inherently creative endeavor, one that asks us to question and seek from a wide variety of sources, external and internal—for example, academic journals and publications, poetry, creative nonfiction, personal writing, etc. In this view of my reading practices, how they engender writing, I hope to demonstrate the possibilities inherent in reading widely with intention and care to (re)present one’s work, all that entails. It requires letting go just a bit, letting the reading and writing process unfurl in less mediated, though still purposeful ways. This work follows those assumptions. It follows that track, meandering between personal experience and the potential of writing with both clarity and creativity, because it must be, in a sense, a little wild

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