1st Edition

Writing as Inquiry Towards Being and Becoming

By Joanne Yoo Copyright 2025
208 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Writing as Inquiry Towards Being and Becoming provides a guide to the different phases of growth experienced when undertaking creative forms of academic writing and inquiry. It describes how embodied, aesthetic, and poetic forms of academic inquiry can be a catalyst for both personal and professional growth. In the author's trademark thoughtful, lyrical writing style, this book moves beyond... Read more

1.       Starting somewhere

2.       Dying to the old

3.       Openness to mystery and growth

4.       Capturing the naked moment through affect

5.       Becoming through crafting

6.       Speaking one’s truth

7.       No words…the ebb and flow of meaning

8.       Writing as a study of eternity

9.       Following the cardiac rhythm

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Biography

Joanne Yoo is Senior Lecturer at the School of International Studies and Education at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She currently teaches in UTS’s secondary teacher education programmes. Joanne’s main research interests include writing as inquiry methodologies that involve the embodied, poetic, and evocative.