Full Description
This text provides comprehensive coverage of the key methods for analyzing, interpreting, and writing up qualitative research in a single volume, and drawing on the expertise of major names in the field. Covering all the steps in the process of analyzing, interpreting, and presenting findings in qualitative research, the authors utilize a consistent chapter structure that provides novice and seasoned researchers with pragmatic, "how-to" strategies. Each chapter introduces the method; uses one of the authors' own research projects as a case study of the method described; shows how the specific analytic method can be used in other types of studies; and concludes with questions and activities to prompt class discussion or personal study.
Contents
Introduction - Charles Vanover, Paul Mihas, and Johnny Saldaña
SECTION 1: DATA AND CONCEPTUAL OPTIONS - Charles Vanover and Paul Mihas
Chapter 1: As A Qualitative Study Unfolds: Shifts in Design and Analysis - Gerardo L. Blanco & Gretchen B. Rossman
Chapter 2: Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Manage the Research Process - Jessica N. Lester & Trena M. Paulus
Chapter 3: After Someone Else's Interview - Sheryl L. Chatfield
SECTION 2: INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION STRATEGIES - Charles Vanover
Chapter 4: Transcription as a Form of Qualitative Inquiry - Charles Vanover
Chapter 5: Theories and Practices of Transcription from Discourse Analysis - Mariaelena Bartesaghi
Chapter 6: Voice to Text: Automating Transcription - Silvana di Gregorio
SECTION 3: STRATEGIES FOR CODING AND CATEGORIZING DATA - Paul Mihas
Chapter 7: Coding System Design and Management - Daniel Turner
Chapter 8: Deductive and Inductive Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis - Andrea J. Bingham & Patricia Witkowsky
Chapter 9: Coding, Categorizing, and Theming the Data: A Reflexive Search for Meaning - Janet C. Richards
Chapter 10: Oral Coding: An Alternative Way to Make Sense of Interview Data - James A. Bernauer
Chapter 11: Mapping Trajectories: Analyzing and Interpreting Focus Group Data Rhizomatically - Alyson Welker & George Kamberelis
Chapter 12: Analyzing and Coding Interviews and Focus Groups Considering Cross-Cultural and Cross-Language Data - Elsa M. Gonzalez and Yvonna S. Lincoln
SECTION 4: REFLECTION AND ANALYTIC MEMOING STRATEGIES - Paul Mihas
Chapter 13: On Being a Researcher-Participant: Challenges With the Iterative Process of Data Production, Analysis and (Re)Production - Craig M. McGill, Drew Puroway, and Mark Duslak
Chapter 14: Memo Writing Strategies: Analyzing the Parts and the Whole - Paul Mihas
Chapter 15: Critical Analytic Memoing - Elaine Keane
SECTION 5: INTERPRETIVE STRATEGIES - Paul Mihas
Chapter 16: Listening Deeply: Indexing Research Conversations - Jaime L. Fiddler
Chapter 17: Emergent Analysis: Strategies for Making Sense of an Evolving Longitudinal Study - Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Cori Egan, Joshua L. Glazer
Chapter 18: Making Claims Using Qualitative Data - Tim Huffman
SECTION 6: ARTS-BASED PRACTICES - Johnny Saldaña
Chapter 19: Dramatizing Interviews - Johnny Saldaña
Chapter 20: What Makes an Effective Teacher? Revealing Good Teaching Practice Through Poetic Transcription - Robyn Shenfield & Monica Prendergast
Chapter 21: Embedding Critical, Creative, and Contemplative Data Analysis in Interview Studies - Kakali Bhattacharya
Chapter 22: Follow the Headlights: On Comics-Based Data Analysis - Sally Campbell Galman
SECTION 7: WRITING-UP PRACTICES - Paul Mihas
Chapter 23: Turning Transcripts into Stories - Aishath Nasheeda, Haslinda Binti Abdullah, Steven Eric Krauss, Nobaya Binti Ahmed
Chapter 24: Writing for a Broad Audience: White Papers, Blogs, and OpEds - Jessica Smartt Gullion
Chapter 25: Sophie's Choices: The Social Act of Publishing a Qualitative Study - Mitchell Allen
Conclusion - Paul Mihas, Johnny Saldaña, and Charles Vanover
