Writing-With integrity: Reimagining research ethics through relational practice
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article introduces Writing-With as a relational ethical orientation in qualitative inquiry, one that foregrounds presence, attunement, and responsibility in the act of writing. Rather than addressing research ethics as a matter of procedural compliance or misconduct prevention, we attend to the subtle, everyday decisions researchers make as they interpret, cite, paraphrase, and co-author. These quiet moments, often unspoken, unmeasured, are where ethics becomes lived. Through reflexive engagement with our own writing practices, we explore how Writing-With invites a shift from rules to relations, from surveillance to care. Writing becomes not only a site of knowledge production but a practice of ethical becoming, responsive, situated, and open to the tensions it carries. This stance does not replace existing frameworks of research integrity, but it expands them by insisting that how we write is inseparable from how we relate.
Source: Research Ethics
Authors: Thanh Thao Le, Trut Thuy Pham
Institutions: Can Tho University, Nam Can Tho University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $500
OpenAlex ID: W7127929331