Composing 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. The style & practice of professional writing, crafting the storyline, rewriting the story, developing the storyline. The Second Edition of Composing Qualitative Research 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 when writing qualitative research.New to the Second Edition: Retains and elaborates on the narrative perspective: Organized around an extended metaphor of "story," the Second Edition expands the story metaphor and incorporates work on narrative writing that was published after the First Edition. Each chapter features a different aspect of creating a story: finding the intended audience, crafting and developing the storyline, characterizing the storyteller, and rewriting the story for publication. Covers numerous disciplines: During the past decade, the popularity of qualitative research has continued to grow and to spread across disciplines. This edition incorporates work from two additional disciplines in which qualitative research has burgeoned-Information Systems and Health Studies-as well as a wider variety of examples in organizational studies. Provides an update on the state of qualitative writing: Chapter 4 has been substantially revised around how we craft ourselves as institutional and human storytellers. Now expanded, Chapter 5 takes an extensive look at manuscripts prior to publication. In addition, this work contains an enhanced list of additional reference materials, including online guides. Organized around an extended metaphor of'story,'this book provides both theoretical and practical guidance for students and researchers who need to transform their qualitative data into a coherent manuscript (essay, dissertation, article for publication, professional writing, etc.). Each chapter covers a different aspect of creating a story: finding the intended audience, crafting and developing the storyline, characterizing the storyteller, and rewriting the story for publication. Composing Qualitative Research is highly recommended for professionals and students across the social sciences and management.Key Features: Now expanded, Chapter 5 takes an extensive look at manuscripts prior to publication. The text offers useful strategies for addressing the writing issues that researchers face when shepherding a manuscript from invention to publication. The book includes real-world examples drawn from many disciplines and publications to demonstrate styles, concepts, challenges, and potential outcomes from writing qualitative research. The work features an expanded list of additional reference materials (online guides included). CONTENTS 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8 INTRODUCTION 10 One: THE STYLE AND PRACTICE OF OUR ACADEMIC WRITING 18 Twp: CRAFTING A THEORIZED STORYLINE 34 Three: DEVELOPING THE THEORIZED STORYLINE 56 Four: CHARACTERIZING THE STORYTELLER 70 Five: RE-WRITING THE STORY 90 CONCLUDING COMMENTS 122 REFERENCES 126 INDEX 136 This text provides both theoretical and practical guidance for students and researchers who need to transform the massive amounts of data collected through qualitative fieldwork into a coherent manuscript.