In Sarah Wall’s, “An Autoethnography on Learning about Autoethnography,” she uses her personal experiences to describe how autoenthographys are beneficial in the research field. Wall breaks her paper up in five main sections. In the first section, Philosophical and theoretical foundations for autobiographical methods, Wall offers up autoethnography as an option over traditional writing and research. This style of research allows those marginalized to tell their personal stories from their perspective, like a “nurse in a doctor’s world.” (Wall) In reflexivity and voice, Wall writes about the need for autoethnography in research. Wall uses a quote by Denzin and Lincoln to refer to lack of genuine reflection as a “crisis of reflection.” Wall
