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...

This book explores the experiences of becoming and continuing to develop as a qualitative researcher. It grows out of the very research process it explains, exemplifies and provides guidance for. Specifically, it integrates a focus on understanding both the cognitive processes involved in engaging the methods of qualitative research and the affective feel engendered by these same procedures; entering, observing, interviewing, analyzing, reporting and reflecting. The premise is that this cognitive/affective mesh is an essential qualitative research reality and, as such, must be highlighted,...