Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches
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- Author：John W. Creswell
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Summary
In the revised Fourth Edition of the best-selling text， John W。 Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N。 Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings， history， and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research， phenomenology， grounded theory， ethnography， and case study。 Preserving Creswell's signature writing style， the authors compare the approaches and relate research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry in a highly accessible manner。 Featuring new content， articles， pedagogy， references， and expanded coverage of ethics throughout， the Fourth Edition is an ideal introduction to the theories， strategies， and practices of qualitative inquiry。
Reviews
Tiffany
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I feel like I can clearly articulate the differences between the five qualitative research designs， when one approach is more conducive than another， how data analysis and collection would vary， and how the final report should be constructed based upon the original research design。 Therefore， the book accomplishes its objective。 The research reports included in the Appendices and the Case study included in Chapter 11 help to reinforce the learning shared throughout the book。 The textbook's desig I feel like I can clearly articulate the differences between the five qualitative research designs， when one approach is more conducive than another， how data analysis and collection would vary， and how the final report should be constructed based upon the original research design。 Therefore， the book accomplishes its objective。 The research reports included in the Appendices and the Case study included in Chapter 11 help to reinforce the learning shared throughout the book。 The textbook's design is effective。 。。。more
Amanda
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read the book for a Ph。D。 course
Oscar Pettersson
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How you can prescribe anyone to use transcendental phenomenology because it's metodologically more concrete even thought it's based on an assumption that it's， through bracketing of the researchers preconceptions， is possible to access the "true phenomenon" feels ontologically weak。 Would have been nice with a description of hermeneutics phenomenology too。 With concrete examples。 How you can prescribe anyone to use transcendental phenomenology because it's metodologically more concrete even thought it's based on an assumption that it's， through bracketing of the researchers preconceptions， is possible to access the "true phenomenon" feels ontologically weak。 Would have been nice with a description of hermeneutics phenomenology too。 With concrete examples。 。。。more
Annya
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Ap
Jeanie Phillips
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Super helpful！ I will refer to this book again and again。
Ayşegül
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Kitap değil çeviri için bu olumsuz değerlendirme ne yazık ki。 Kitap orijinal dilinde çok sade， anlaşılır ve öğretici。 Türkçe'ye yapılan bu çeviri ise yanına soru işareti koyduğum cümlelerle dolu。 Cümledeki anlamı ortaya çıkarmaktansa kelimeler birebir çevrilmiş。 Elimdeki kitap 2020'de çıkan， 'Gözden Geçirilmiş 5。 Baskı' üstelik。。 Kitap değil çeviri için bu olumsuz değerlendirme ne yazık ki。 Kitap orijinal dilinde çok sade， anlaşılır ve öğretici。 Türkçe'ye yapılan bu çeviri ise yanına soru işareti koyduğum cümlelerle dolu。 Cümledeki anlamı ortaya çıkarmaktansa kelimeler birebir çevrilmiş。 Elimdeki kitap 2020'de çıkan， 'Gözden Geçirilmiş 5。 Baskı' üstelik。。 。。。more
Curtis
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Needed the book for a grad school class。
Kyrstin
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One of the more helpful texts about qualitative research that I’ve read。 It made methodologies more clear and explained the process of doing research in concise and manageable way。
Zoey X
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Fantastic！
Jeff
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This is not the sort of book you read front to back。 It’s more of a reference work detailing five different approaches to qualitative research。 I found it very helpful。 It’s easy to navigate once you understand how it works。
Leonardo Longo
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An easy to understand approach to qualitative research， but at the same time full of references and guidelines on how to apply the different methods， with prescriptive guides and recommendations， without being extremely technical。
Chris
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My book for the qualitative research class I took this semester was informative and a book I will continue to use as a resource as I write my dissertation。 For a book on research， Creswell did a great job providing information by using many graphic organizers and tables that helped me understand important qualities of the five main forms of qualitative research。 Creswell is the master of qualitative research and every doctorate student needs to read his work。
Sara Best
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I found Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design surprisingly interesting！ Initially I had assumed I would only be interested in the case study approach。 However， once I mentally proposed five research ideas， one for each of the five approaches， to the topic I am considering， I found the whole book valuable。 At each section I applied the text to my idea for that approach。 As a result， I have seriously considered alternative approaches to my initial idea and may end up with a phenomenological appr I found Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design surprisingly interesting！ Initially I had assumed I would only be interested in the case study approach。 However， once I mentally proposed five research ideas， one for each of the five approaches， to the topic I am considering， I found the whole book valuable。 At each section I applied the text to my idea for that approach。 As a result， I have seriously considered alternative approaches to my initial idea and may end up with a phenomenological approach instead of a case study。 。。。more
Emma Refvem
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A great summary of qualitative research techniques。 It does not work well as a kindle book， since it is great for reference。 I am， however， not made of money so it will have to live in my kindle for now。
Valleri
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Difficult to understand and extremely verbose， this book explains （painstakingly） in-depth how to conduct social science research， but does so in the most boring way possible。
Erin
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Meh。 I supplemented much of the content from online articles。
Louise Sullivan
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An essential book for those of us writing a qualitative dissertation。
Bri （readingknitter。com）
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Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design is a textbook that thoroughly compares and contrasts five different qualitative approaches for research: narrative， phenomenology， grounded theory， case study， and ethnography。 There are many helpful charts that break down the key components of these approaches so you can digest how they are similar and different from each other。 The textbook weaves through how to conceive a research question， consider which of the five approaches can best gather the data yo Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design is a textbook that thoroughly compares and contrasts five different qualitative approaches for research: narrative， phenomenology， grounded theory， case study， and ethnography。 There are many helpful charts that break down the key components of these approaches so you can digest how they are similar and different from each other。 The textbook weaves through how to conceive a research question， consider which of the five approaches can best gather the data you need to answer a research question in the way its framed， how to collect the data， and finally how to write up the report。 I wish it had been assigned reading in one of the qualitative courses and I imagine I will use it as a reference text in the future。 However， there were some editing issues with my edition of the book （2018）， with sentences that would stop without finishing in some of the charts and within actual paragraphs of text that dock it a star for me。For more reviews， check out www。girlwithabookblog。com！ 。。。more
Mark Griffiths
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In the world of qualitative research this book is king。
Jennifer
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Very clearly written
Melinda
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Good， readable reference book for five qualitative approaches to research。
Sean Halpin
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An excellent read that thoroughly reviews five methods of qualitative analysis。
J。 J。
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Not exactly a page-turner， but that's not the point。 Very informative and philosophically self-aware。 Creswell is definitive in this space。 Just wish I wasn't reading seven books on research methods all at once like this。 Brutal。 Required reading for one of my doctoral seminars。 Not exactly a page-turner， but that's not the point。 Very informative and philosophically self-aware。 Creswell is definitive in this space。 Just wish I wasn't reading seven books on research methods all at once like this。 Brutal。 Required reading for one of my doctoral seminars。 。。。more
Lynne Nunyabidness
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I finally finished this bitch！No， seriously。 Those were the first words out of my mouth。 This book has been my white whale since the summer。 I am not a theoretical gal （my undergraduate degree was a practical one， and my graduate degree focused on the functional concepts of my profession rather than the abstract）。 If you’re interested in learning about the basics of qualitative research， this is a fabulous book for you。 Hence， the four-star review。 It’s fairly practical and full of useful tips， I finally finished this bitch！No， seriously。 Those were the first words out of my mouth。 This book has been my white whale since the summer。 I am not a theoretical gal （my undergraduate degree was a practical one， and my graduate degree focused on the functional concepts of my profession rather than the abstract）。 If you’re interested in learning about the basics of qualitative research， this is a fabulous book for you。 Hence， the four-star review。 It’s fairly practical and full of useful tips， centering around five different research approaches—narrative， phenomenology， grounded theory， ethnography， and case study—and taking you through the research process from conceptual pondering to writing the report。 I’m sure I will make use of pieces of information here over the coming year。 Occasionally， I even grasped some of the more esoteric concepts， though I will probably continue to need to look up the definitions of etiology， axiology， epistemology， et al， every time I see them。 。。。more
Venkatesh-Prasad
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I was looking for a good introduction to approaches to qualitative research and this book did a great job of providing it。 It talks about philosophy assumptions and interpretative framework before getting into the the approaches。 This provides more context for the approaches and when and where they should be applied。 The book uses a comparative presentation style -- always comparing the five approaches。 This really helps appreciate the similarities and differences of approaches。 In fact， it help I was looking for a good introduction to approaches to qualitative research and this book did a great job of providing it。 It talks about philosophy assumptions and interpretative framework before getting into the the approaches。 This provides more context for the approaches and when and where they should be applied。 The book uses a comparative presentation style -- always comparing the five approaches。 This really helps appreciate the similarities and differences of approaches。 In fact， it helps appreciate the subtle differences between the approaches。 As I was interested in grounded theory， I skimmed over other approaches when they started to go into examples。 One of my gripes with the book was the citations。 I am used to simple numerical citations。 On Kindle apps， at times， the author-year style citations took up half the column and this affected the flow of reading。 The other was more of an annoyance due to lack of more details about coding which seems to be a common data analysis task across all approaches。 Then again， an overview book can only do so much。 BTW， half of the book is appendix containing exemplar articles for each approach。 Could have the publishers omitted the appendix and charged us half the price？ :）I'd strongly recommend it as the first book for researchers interested in learning about qualitative research。 。。。more
Merkurius
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Pedagogisk och bra。
Bronwyn
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I found Creswell difficult to connect with as though he felt he was writing for people who wouldn't understand him anyway， so why would he make it accessible。 There was a lot of good information in there， but I found I did a lot of reading of other materials to ensure it was clear。 I found Creswell difficult to connect with as though he felt he was writing for people who wouldn't understand him anyway， so why would he make it accessible。 There was a lot of good information in there， but I found I did a lot of reading of other materials to ensure it was clear。 。。。more
JodyReads
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If you're doing qualitative research， this is a great place to start。 It gives you an overview of the main types of qualitative research， their goals， their methods， and their analysis。 I find myself frequently going back to this book to clarify my own questions and cite in my research。 Creswell also offers examples of the different types and additional books if you're looking at a specific type。 A great jumping off point and when you're ready， you can use this book to find others specific to yo If you're doing qualitative research， this is a great place to start。 It gives you an overview of the main types of qualitative research， their goals， their methods， and their analysis。 I find myself frequently going back to this book to clarify my own questions and cite in my research。 Creswell also offers examples of the different types and additional books if you're looking at a specific type。 A great jumping off point and when you're ready， you can use this book to find others specific to your methodology。This is one is for grad students。 Seriously， why would you be reading this otherwise？ 。。。more
Sandra
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This book helped me structure my entire thesis proposal， supporting me through the long and convoluted process of defining （and refining！） my research question， choosing the appropriate methodology， understanding the underpinning paradigmatic aspects， and constructing suitable methods。 I honestly couldn't have made it through the semester without it！ As with Creswell's other work， this book is clear， concise， super readable， well organised， and packed with great examples。 I highly recommend it f This book helped me structure my entire thesis proposal， supporting me through the long and convoluted process of defining （and refining！） my research question， choosing the appropriate methodology， understanding the underpinning paradigmatic aspects， and constructing suitable methods。 I honestly couldn't have made it through the semester without it！ As with Creswell's other work， this book is clear， concise， super readable， well organised， and packed with great examples。 I highly recommend it for anyone new to qualitative research or looking to put together a killer research proposal （mine got a high distinction， thanks in no small part to this excellent book！）。 。。。more
Donia
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