Composing Qualitative Research [Paperback]

The Second Edition of Composing Qualitative Research: Crafting Theoretical Points from Qualitative Data offers useful strategies for addressing the writing issues that researchers face when shepherding a manuscript from invention to publication. Authors Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke use real-world examples drawn from a variety of disciplines and publications to demonstrate styles, concepts, challenges, and potential outcomes from writing qualitative research.The Second Edition of Composing Qualitative Research: Crafting Theoretical Points from Qualitative Data offers useful strategies for addressing the writing issues that researchers face when shepherding a manuscript from invention to publication. Authors Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke use real-world examples drawn from a variety of disciplines and publications to demonstrate styles, concepts, challenges, and potential outcomes from writing qualitative research. For professionals and students in the social sciences and management, Golden-Biddle and Locke explain how to transform field work experience of qualitative research into journal articles. Introduction
Writing about Writing
Writing our Fieldwork
Focus on Story
Organization of Chapters
The Style and Practice of Our Academic Writing
The Predominant Style of Academic Writing: Unadorned and Disembodied
Experiencing the Practice of Academic Writing
The Style and Practice of Academic Writing: Interested and Persuasive Discourse
Our Writing Task
Crafting a Theorized Storyline
Establishing Theorized Storylines
Developing the Theorized Storyline
Compelling Beginnings
Novel Use of Methodology
Data-Theory Coupling