Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide [Paperback] Lyn Richards(Author) Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd; 1 edition (April 9, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0761942599 ISBN-13: 978-0761942597 Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces Book Description Publication Date: April 9, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0761942599 | ISBN-13: 978-0761942597 | Edition: 1 Handling Qualitative Data introduces students and practitioners to qualitative research in a uniquely practical manner. Firstly, it recognizes that for many novice researchers, data, rather than methods and their philosophical underpinnings, are the point of departure. Secondly, it advocates a progressive accumulation of skills and understanding of methodological issues as they are needed. This enables the student to perform efficaciously from the start by immediately being in a position to handle, reflect upon and get results from, small amounts of data, giving them a launch pad to more complex endeavours. Editorial Reviews Review \'While this book scratches the surface of qualitative research overall, the focus always remains on qualitative data. The author glides through important areas of qualitative research and presents them with a \"you can do it\" tone...serves as a great companion to an advanced undergraduate research course or a research design course at the master\'s level\' - The Qualitative Report --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. About the Author I now do teaching, writing, about qualitative research and improving methods for handling qualitative data, using all that I\'ve learned thru the years of driving software development. Note, I no longer do software training, in QSR\'s or other software. Other interests are opera, orchids, orchards, bushwalking and above all, family in all its manifestations.
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