Qualitative Research from Start to Finish

1. What Is Qualitative Research—and Why Might You Consider Doing Such Research?

2. Getting Ready to Do Qualitative Research

3. How to Start a Qualitative Research Study

II. Doing Qualitative Research

4. Choices in Designing Qualitative Research Studies

5. Doing Fieldwork

6. Data Collection Methods

7. Recording Data

8. Analyzing Qualitative Data, I: Compiling, Disassembling, and Reassembling

9. Analyzing Qualitative Data, II: Intepreting and Concluding

III. Presenting the Results from Qualitative Research

10. Displaying Qualitative Data

11. Composing Research, to Share It with Others

IV. Taking Qualitative Research One Step Further

12. Broadening the Challenge of Doing Qualitative Research

Appendix A. Illustrative Study Bank

Appendix B. Two Levels of Data Collection Units in Illustrative Qualitative Studies Cited in This Book

Appendix C. A Semester- or Year-Long Project

A Glossary of Special Terms Used in Qualitative Research