Last week, you worked to develop your own resource for this assignment in this list of qualities of autoethnographic essays and possible topics. The final defining quality of autoethnographic essays that we will introduce today is the use of qualitative data. According to Jackson and Grutsch McKinney, “the author uses an inductive, qualitative approach for project design, data collection, and analysis” (11). Qualitative data is narrative – it is data in the form of words, phrases, and sentences – and authors we’ve read have used qualitative data in their autoethnographies. (Think of Inayatulla’s use of her own journals, diaries, and course notes.) For our purposes, you will use your peers’ writing…