Open AccessSpark: Why I Wrote a Novel Designed to Teach the Research Process
Author(s) -
Patricia Leavy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3996
Subject(s) - spark (programming language) , passions , heading (navigation) , process (computing) , sociology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , computer science , engineering , programming language , aerospace engineering , operating system
I’m a sociologist specializing in research methodology. I’m also a novelist. When my latest novel, Spark, was released, people remarked that it seemed inevitable for me to combine my two passions. I agree. In some ways this is probably always where my work was heading, although it necessarily took a long time to get here. I’d like to share why as a scholar I turned to fiction, the inspiration for Spark, and my hopes for the book.