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Analysing Qualitative Data by
This book tackles the challenges of how to make sense of qualitative data. It offers students and researchers a hands-on guide to the practicalities of coding, comparing data, and using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. Lastly, Gibbs shows you how to bring it all together, so you can see the steps of qualitative analysis, understand the central place of coding, ensure analytic quality and write effectively to present your results.
See specifically Ch 3 Writing and a video of his lecture on Writing Qualitative Research (~30min)
Writing for Social Scientists by
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholars like sociologist Howard S. Becker struggle with it. And it provides a clear solution: In order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat. This is not a book about sociological writing. Instead, Becker applies his sociologist's eye to some of the common problems all academic writers face, including trying to get it right the first time, failing, and therefore not writing at all; getting caught up in the trappings of "proper" academic writing; writing to impress rather than communicate with readers; and struggling with the when and how of citations. He then offers concrete advice, based on his own experiences and those of his students and colleagues, for overcoming these obstacles and gaining confidence as a writer. While the underlying challenges of writing have remained the same since the book first appeared, the context in which academic writers work has changed dramatically, thanks to rapid changes in technology and ever greater institutional pressures. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect these changes, offering a new generation of scholars and students encouragement to write about society or any other scholarly topic clearly and persuasively. As Becker writes in the new preface, "Nothing prepared me for the steady stream of mail from readers who found the book helpful. Not just helpful. Several told me the book had saved their lives; less a testimony to the book as therapy than a reflection of the seriousness of the trouble writing failure could get people into." As academics are being called on to write more often, in more formats, the experienced, rational advice in Writing for Social Scientists will be an important resource for any writer's shelf.
Writing up Qualitative Research by
Writing Up Qualitative Research, Third Edition offers time-tested suggestions on every aspect of the process from beginning to end. In this new edition, author Harry Wolcott continues to focus on the "writing side" of qualitative research, while incorporating new features such as guidelines on how and where to use theory. Key Features Offers practical suggestions for preparing an article or book for publication Uses lively examples from the author's more than 40 years of experience Provides suggestions on how to proceed with the mechanics of preparing a manuscript Includes pointers on how to improve or jump-start the writing process Features a most robust and accessible pedagogy This text is ideal as a supplementary text in any upper-level undergraduate or graduate seminar on the research process. Praise for the Third Edition: "Writing up Qualitative Research has CHIME - compassion, humor, intelligence, mindfulness of humanity, and empirical evidence. Wolcott's empathic compassion is a major strength. The content of every chapter shows that Wolcott has fel and grappled with all the same anxieties and fears of writers at every level." --Sonja Peterson-Lewis, Temple University "His style is good, down to earth, and easy to understand for both undergraduate and graduate." --Joseph Wronka, Springfield College "The Wolcott text is much more reader-friendly and writer-friendly. It offer remarkable support for the writing process, compared to traditional texts." --Judy K. C. Bentley, SUNY at Cortland "The conversational style makes the book inviting and accessible. It is comprehensive, addressing the various aspects of writing ranging from setting up to where to write to get published. It teaches and motivates with being didactic or arrogant." --Pat Maslin-Ostrowski, Florida Atlantic University
Writing up your Phd (Qualitative Research) by
This is for PhD students working on a qualitative thesis who have completed their data collection and analysis and are at the stage of writing up. The materials should also be useful if you are writing up a ‘mixed-methods’ thesis, including chapters of analysis and discussion of qualitative data.
Doing and Writing Qualitative Research by
Accessible, practical and concise, this revised edition expertly tackles the practical problems which writers face when they attempt to transfer the rich data experience of their real world research into a textual product. New attention is paid to the crucial issues of the nature and use of visual data, personal narrative, core and periphery data, and data reconstruction and fictionalization. Sensitive issues dealing with the appropriate use of identity in research settings are clearly discussed, while techniques for avoiding reductive judgements are presented and critically discussed. By making the workings of written study transparent, the book demonstrates how to manage subjectivity and achieve scientific rigour in the qualitative research process. This book provides accessible advice for novice researchers on where to begin and how to proceed. But much more than a simple manual, it also guides the more experience researcher through the social, cultural and political complexities involved in every step of the way. It is an essential tool for students in all disciplines that engage in qualitative research, including sociology, applied linguistics, management, sport science, health studies and education.
See especially Ch 3, "Showing the workings" and Ch 5, "Writing about data".
(the 2016 edition is not available online through Mason)
Reporting Qualitative Research in Psychology by Best, Amy L. 2006. Freedom, Constraint, and Family Responsibility: Teens and Parents Collaboratively Negotiate Around the Car, Class, Gender, and Culture. Journal of Family Issues 27(1): 55–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X05275422
Hanrahan, Nancy. 2018. "Hearing the Contradictions: Aesthetic Experience, Music and Digitization." Cultural Sociology 12(3): 289–302. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975518776517
Allen, Quaylan. 2013. “‘They Think Minority Means Lesser Than’: Black Middle-Class Sons and Fathers Resisting Microaggressions in the School.” Urban Education 48 (2):171–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085912450575.
Hanna, Ashley-Marie Vollmer, and Debora Marie Ortega. 2016. “Salir Adelante (Perseverance): Lessons from the Mexican Immigrant Experience.” Journal of Social Work 16 (1):47–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017314560301.