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Doing and writing qualitative research /

Holliday, Adrian.

Doing and writing qualitative research / Adrian Holliday. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002. - xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. ; pbk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.

[Part 1: Approaching Qualitative Research] Qualitative and quantitative -- Managing subjectivity -- Schools and approaches -- Writer as stranger. [Part 2: Starting Out] Researching everyday life -- Determining the area -- Establishing a research question -- Defining the research setting. [Part 3: Showing the Workings] Conceptual framework -- Explaining procedures -- Significance of research strategy -- Articulating issues. [Part 4: What Counts as Data] Overview of qualitative data -- Arising from social settings -- Thick description -- Approaching thick description --Making the familiar strange. [Part 5: Writing about Data] From data to written study -- Organizing and presenting data -- Embedding data in the argument -- Keeping things separate -- Caution. [Part 6: Writer Voice] The struggle with convention -- New thinking -- The author writes back -- Creating coherence -- Achieving credibility. [Part 7: Writing about Relations] Reflexivity -- The culture of dealing -- Setting up relations -- Establishing relations -- Behaving appropriately --Using experience as data -- Disciplined learning. [Part 8: Making Appropriate Claims] Allowing 'ordinary' voice -- Cautious detachment -- Suspending judgment -- People in relationships.

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Social sciences--Research
Qualitative research.
Social sciences.
Research.
Writing.
General.
Linguistics
Social research & statistics
Education
Research methods: general

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