Designing qualitative research
Catherine Marshall, Gretchen B. Rossman
- 5th ed.
- Los Angeles : Sage, c2011.
- xxii, 321 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
1. Introduction 2. Qualitative Research Genres 3. Trustworthiness and Ethics 4. The What of the Study: Building the Conceptual Framework 5. The How of the Study: Building the Research Design 6. Primary Data Collection Methods 7. Secondary and Specialized Methods 8. Managing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data 9. Planning Time and Resource 10. Revisiting Proposal as Argument and Forecasting Final Representations.
"Providing students in applied social and behavioral science disciplines with invaluable guidance on developing and successfully defending qualitative research proposals, the Fifth Edition of this bestselling text offers expanded coverage of ethics, data analysis, and research design techniques. Authors Catherine Marshall and Gretchen B. Rossman cover distance-based research (such as email interviews); the implications of postmodern turns; integrating archival material; and creative ways of presenting the research. The authors include updates to popular features, such as vignettes that illustrate the methodological challenges today's qualitative researcher face."--Publisher website.