On Writing Qualitative Research : Living by Words

ISBN-13: 9780750706025 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 240 str.

Margot Ely;Anzul Margaret

Opis

Written for both new and experienced researchers, this book is about creating research writing that is useful, believable, and interesting. The authors recognize that qualitative reports are inevitably ways of telling stories. Blending rigorous scholarship with a clear, accessible style, they examine the processes, rhetorical devices, and other tools researchers use to create stories that evoke the complexity of the experiences within their studies.
Throughout the book the authors' accounts of their own research writing experiences and those of their colleagues are woven together with the writing and reflections-on-writing of students of qualitative research. The result is a framework of insights that challenges, models, questions, and illustrates the ways in which researchers compose meaning from their research data and present them in meaningful ways for others.

Recenzje

'This book is a shining example of compelling, communicative writing. It is well exemplified from a wide range of perspectives, each analysed and used as part of a story. The authors are careful not to prescribe one approach, validating a whole range and showing how each can be used effectively in particular contexts. Though the authors are all located in Education, they successfully use examples from across the social sciences to make their text accessible to a wider audience. Additionally, they make a point of explaining and discussing taken-for-granted terms and concepts ... making the book really accessible to beginners who will be able to use it to develop their own skills ... The authors are clearly teachers and have modelled their craft well.' - Evaluation and Research in Education

Spis treści

1.To you from us 2.What is there about writing? 3.Creating forms - informing understanding; working in analytic modes 4.Working in interpretive modes 5.Negotiating, collaborating, responding; ripples on the self/ripples on others 6.Qualitative research writing - what makes it worthwhile after all?

O autorze

Anzul, Margaret; Downing, Maryann; Ely, Margot; Vinz, Ruth