Roberts, Ken 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7492-9953
(2018)
Writing about leisure.
WORLD LEISURE JOURNAL, 60 (1).
pp. 3-13.
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Abstract
Writing is different than talking. The author needs a narrative. There has to be a start-point–a problem or question–then a body of evidence or argument, which leads to a conclusion. In other words, the writer needs a good story, and it now seems that throughout the history of leisure studies we have been searching for really good stories. There have been five main types of leisure narrative. There are “full frontal” stories about leisure; then stories about different types of leisure. The third type of story is about the leisure of a specific group–a gender, age or ethnic group or a social class, for example. The fourth story is about the different types of providers of leisure goods and services. Fifth and finally, there are stories about leisure as seen through the prisms of different social theories. We can debate, and there is no need to agree on, which kind of story is best. However, we may conclude, and the story in this paper is that we can conclude, that some stories have better endings than others.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | peerreview_statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope. aims_and_scope_url: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rwle20 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Leisure, leisure business, leisure theory, social theory |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Apr 2017 10:50 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 07:24 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/16078055.2016.1261645 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3005026 |
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