README FIRST for a User's Guide to Qualitative Methods
by Lyn RichardsEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-12-07
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary
Using a clear, conversational, and friendly approach, the Second Edition of README FIRST for a User's Guide to Qualitative Methods offers novice researchers a readable, practical "readme" guide to get them started in qualitative inquiry. In chapters full of practical advice, authors Lyn Richards and Janice M. Morse take the reader through the steps of research design, software choice and use, data making, coding, abstracting, and presenting a study.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Why Readme First? | |
| Goals | |
| Methods and Their Integrity | |
| Methodological Diversity and Informed Choice | |
| No Mysteries! | |
| Learning by Doing It: Qualitative Research as a Craft | |
| Qualitative Research as a Challenge | |
| Using Readme | |
| The Shape of the Book | |
| What to Expect | |
| Doing Qualitative Research | |
| Resources | |
| Thinking Research | |
| The Integrity of Qualitative Research | |
| Methodological Purposiveness | |
| Methodological Congruence | |
| The Armchair Walkthrough | |
| And Now-Your Topic? | |
| What can you aim for? | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Selecting a Method | |
| Commonalities and Differences | |
| Phenomenology | |
| Ethnography | |
| Grounded Theory | |
| Additional Qualitative Methods | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Qualitative Research Design | |
| The Levels of Design | |
| Planning Design | |
| Doing Design | |
| Designing for Validity | |
| Project Pacing | |
| Choosing Your Software | |
| Overall Project Design | |
| Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Projects | |
| Using Your Software for Research Design | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Inside Analysis | |
| Making Data | |
| What Are Data (and What Are Not) | |
| Ways of Making Data | |
| Who Makes Data? | |
| Transforming Data | |
| Managing Data | |
| The Role of Data | |
| Yourself as Data | |
| Using Your Software for Managing Data | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Coding | |
| Getting Inside the Data | |
| Storing Ideas | |
| Doing Coding | |
| Theme-ing | |
| Purposiveness of Coding | |
| Tips and Traps: Handling Codes and Coding | |
| Using Your Software for Coding | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Abstracting | |
| The First Step: Categorizing | |
| The Next Step: Conceptualizing | |
| Doing Abstraction | |
| Managing Abstraction | |
| Using Your Software for Managing Ideas | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Revisiting Methodological Congruence | |
| Phenomenology | |
| Ethnography | |
| Grounded Theory | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Getting It Right | |
| On Getting It Right and Knowing If It's Wrong | |
| Ensuring Rigor in the Design Phase | |
| Ensuring Rigor While Conducting a Project | |
| When Is It Done? | |
| Demonstrating Rigor on Completion of the Project | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Writing It Up | |
| Ready to Write? | |
| Re-revisiting Methodological Congruence | |
| Protecting Participants | |
| Evaluate Your Writing | |
| Polishing | |
| Using your Software for Writing | |
| Writing your Thesis or Dissertation | |
| Writing an Article for Publication | |
| After Publication, Then What? | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Beginning Your Project | |
| Groundwork for Beginning Your Project | |
| Writing Your Proposal | |
| Ensuring Ethical Research | |
| Summary | |
| Resources | |
| Getting Started | |
| Why Is It So Hard to Start? | |
| How to Start? | |
| Congratulations, You've Started! | |
| Resources | |
| Using the Software Tutorials | |
| Applying for funding | |
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