Editing Autoethnography (section)

== Process ==
As a method, autoethnography combines characteristics of autobiography and ethnography.<ref name=":25" />

To form the autobiographical aspects of the autoethnography, the author will write retroactively and selectively about past experiences.<ref name=":25" /> Unlike other forms of research, the author typically did not live through such experiences solely to create a publishable document; rather, the experiences are assembled using hindsight.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021|reason=Missing bibliographic reference for this APA-style in-text citation.}} Additionally, authors may conduct formal or informal interview and/or consult relevant texts (e.g., diaries or photographs) to help with recall.<ref name=":25" /> The experiences are tied together using literary elements "to create evocative and specific representations of the culture/cultural experience and to give audiences a sense of how being there in the experience feels."<ref name=":25" />

Ethnography, on the other hand, involves observing and writing about culture. During the first stage, researchers will observe and interview individuals of the selected cultural group and take detailed [[fieldnotes]].<ref name=":25" /> Ethnographers discover their findings through induction. That is, ethnographers do not go into the field looking for specific answers; rather, their observations, writing, and fieldnotes yield the findings.<ref name=":25" /> Such findings are conveyed to others through [[thick description]] so that readers may come to their own conclusions regarding the situation described.<ref name=":25" />

Autoethnography uses aspects of autobiography (e.g., personal experiences and recall) and ethnography (e.g., interviews, observations, and fieldnotes) to create vivid descriptions that connect to the personal to the cultural.<ref name=":25" />