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work_z7fkscrtive37edjw7yub7wze4	Max van Manen	Writing Qualitatively, or the Demands of Writing	2006	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5830	500	65	10.1177/1049732306286911ARTICLEQUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH / May 2006van Manen / WRITING QUALITATIVELY The role, meaning, and significance of writing are rarely problematized in theliterature of qualitative human science methods. The assumption that needs to be examined is that qualitative (phenomenological) inquiry cannot really be separated from the practice of writing. To understand the role of writing in phenomenological inquiry, we need to go back prereflective life would be much better described in terms of an experience of writing, as explicated in the provocative works of Blanchot (1981). act of writing begins with Orpheus's gaze" (Blanchot, 1981, p. ponders the meaning of the most consequential or the most trivial of human concerns, the act of phenomenological writing, if done with utmost seriousness, confronts the writer with the dark, with the enigma of phenomenality. "The act of writing begins with Orpheus's gaze," said but that phenomenological reflection is, first of all, an experience of writing. Writing in the dark: Phenomenological studies in interpretive inquiry.	./cache/work_z7fkscrtive37edjw7yub7wze4.pdf	./txt/work_z7fkscrtive37edjw7yub7wze4.txt