Composing Qualitative Research

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ISBN: 9781412905619 | 1412905613
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Copyright: 8/3/2006

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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.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

(8)

Writing About Writing

(2)

Writing Our Fieldwork

(1)

Focus on "Theorized Storyline"

(1)

Organization of Chapters

(3)

1. The Style and Practice of Our Academic Writing

(16)

The Predominant Style of Academic Writing: Unadorned and Disembodied

(1)

Experiencing the Practice of Academic Writing

(6)

Write It Up, But What Do We Write?

(1)

Write It Up, But For Whom Do We Write?

(3)

Write It Up, But Under What Terms Will Our Writing Be Granted a Disciplinary Audience?

(1)

The Style and Practice of Academic Writing: Interested and Persuasive Discourse

(6)

Our Writing Task

(2)

2. Crafting a Theorized Storyline

(22)

Establishing Theorized Storylines

(1)

Move 1: Articulate Study Significance

(4)

Move 2: Situate Study in Literature

(6)

Synthesized Coherence

(1)

Progressive Coherence

(2)

Noncoherence

(1)

Move 3: Problematize Literature to Make Space for Study to Contribute

(7)

Incomplete

(1)

Inadequate

(2)

Incommensurate

(3)

Move 4: Foreshadow How the Present Study Addresses Problematization

(3)

3. Developing the Theorized Storyline

(14)

Compelling Beginnings

(3)

Novel Use of Methodology Sections

(1)

Data–Theory Coupling

(5)

Telling, Showing, and Telling

(2)

Minimal Telling, Showing, Telling, More General Telling

(2)

Storylines With Field and Theory Complications

(4)

4. Characterizing the Storyteller

(20)

Storyteller in the Guise of Institutional and Human Scientist

(5)

Institutional and Human Storyteller in Relationship to the Studied

(3)

Institutional and Human Portrayals as Technically Competent Storyteller

(5)

Institutional and Human Scientist as Field-Knowledgeable Storyteller

(5)

5. Re-Writing the Story

(32)

Re-Writing the Manuscript Prior to Journal Review

(3)

Re-Writing the Manuscript During the Journal Review Process

(22)

Engaging and Re-Writing the Field Story and What It Is About

(4)

Re-Writing the Articulated Theorized Storylines

(9)

How Authors Engage Reviewer Suggestions for Re-Writing the Manuscript

100

(8)

Reflections on the Re-Written Manuscripts

108

(2)

Conclusion

110

(3)

Concluding Comments

113

(4)

Writing and Re-Writing

114

(1)

Sharing

115

(1)

Reading

115

(2)

References

117

(10)

Index

127

(8)

About the Authors

135

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