Constructing Composite Narratives
A Step-By-Step Guide for Researchers in the Social Sciences
- 106 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Constructing Composite Narratives
A Step-By-Step Guide for Researchers in the Social Sciences
About this book
This book provides the first instructional guide to composite narrative research methods. Composite narratives are short vignettes that weave together quotes from multiple participants. The effect is to convey meaning to both academics and end-users, disseminating research findings succinctly and effectively. Readers interested in writing composite narratives will find a complete guide in this book.
More and more researchers are using composite narratives to present their research findings, with support for the effectiveness of composite narratives as a research method growing. Inside this book, there is a rationale for why to use composite narratives and a complete guide for how to write them. Many examples from the author are provided, complete with audit trails that evidence how the composite narratives were written from the raw qualitative research data.
Social science researchers at all career stages will be able to use this book to justify and construct composite narratives. Beginning with a discussion of this background, the proposed book will offer research students, supervisors, and experienced academics a manual for how and why to use composite narratives in social sciences research. The intended audience includes qualitative researchers in the social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What are composite narratives and why use them?
- 2 A background to composite narratives in the literature
- 3 An overview of methods for qualitative data collection and analysis
- 4 Six steps for constructing composite narratives
- 5 Record keeping: Audit trails for composite narrative constructions
- 6 Other methods for constructing composite narratives
- 7 Context of the narratives: A study about studentsā experiences of their teachersā expectations of them
- 8 Eight examples of composite narratives about studentsā experiences with audit trails
- 9 15 Further narratives about studentsā experiences with a meta-narrative index
- 10 Evidence of composite narrative efficacy in communicating findings to research end-users
- 11 Conclusion
- Index