Designing Qualitative Research

By Catherine Marshall and Gretchen B. Rossman

Book Overview

Completely updated, the new edition of Designing Qualitative Research contains lucid discussions on the critical traditions within qualitative inquiry, conceptualizations of researchers′ roles and possibilities for more collaborative ways of doing qualitative research.

Featuring a new chapter organization, the volume highlights the important topics of data-collection methods, data management and analysis, and resource allocation decisions - all of which are revised and feature new examples. Also included are updated vignettes which provide illustrations that take the reader through the complex processes of proposal development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080395249X
• ISBN13: 9780803952492
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Good Qualitative Research Resource!

This book is a must have in your qualitative research collection. The authors did a great job presenting different assessment techniques, how to do research in the qualitative way, and walk you through the whole process. From designing your research to data analysis. Excellent resource!

Helpful text

This was my first time learning qualitative research and I have found this book to be very good for the beginner, like me. It is written clearly and has many examples to clarify points.

The best yet

I have recently read this book and found it very useful in terms of providing up to date references on most aspects of Qualitative Research. I found the chapters on Thematic analysis and coding very helpful indeed and wished that I had this book when engaged in my doctoral studies. I am pleased to refer researchers and students engaged in such work to carefully read this book. I plan to use it in an upcoming Journal paper that I am writing.

Very Helpful

I used this as a reference during a Masters class. It was very useful when it came time to design my research project.

Great Overview on Qualitative Research

If you are in graduate school and decide to do your thesis as a qualitative research project, I would highly recommend this book. Even though the authors describe what qualitative research is, I would recommend that you read one of the texts they mention for the individual techniques. For example, even though it has a nice overview of case study, one should read Yin's book on case study research.