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In an “Autoethnography on Learning About Autoethnography,” the author, Sarah Wall author and Doctoral Student, clarifies how she studied autoethnography and discusses to her readers about the history, the definition and describes the process of understand autoenography. Wall describes autoengraphy as “… an emerging qualitative research method that allows the author to write in a highly personalized style, drawing on his or her experience to extend understanding about a societal phenomenon” (Wall, p. 1). Wall describes the differences between an ethnography and autoenography is. Ethnography is made up of validated research while and autoenography is made up of personal and cultural experiences.

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