The Good, the Bad, and the Data
Shane the Lone Ethnographer's Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis
- 103 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Good, the Bad, and the Data
Shane the Lone Ethnographer's Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis
About This Book
Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographerâa grad student with fond visions of the Wild Westâand her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narrative analysis. Along the trail, she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly, comic book style, Shane's Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read.
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Chapter One
Showdown At the Coffeehouse
Chapter Two
On the Trail of the Lonesome...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Showdown at the Coffehouse
- 2. On the Trail of the Lonesome Data Analyst
- 3. They Coded with their Boots On
- 4. Write, Vaquero!
- 5. The Great Train Robbery or Doing Narrative Analysis
- 6. The Discourse Kid
- 7. Analyzing and Understanding "Other Kinds" of Data
- 8. Calamity Shane
- 9. Time to Hit the Old Dusty Audit Trail: Reliability and Validity Concerns
- 10. Our Hero Takes her Final Bow
- Works Cited
- About the Author