The Good, the Bad, and the Data
Shane the Lone Ethnographer's Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis
By Sally Campbell Galman | Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
About the book
Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographera grad student with fond visions of the Wild Westand her horse Transcriptor. In this comicstyle textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narrative analysis. Along the trail, she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly, comic book style, Shane's Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read.
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Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographera grad student with fond visions of the Wild Westand her horse Transcriptor. In this comicstyle textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narrative analysis. Along the trail, she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly, comic book style, Shane's Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read.
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Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographera grad student with fond visions of the Wild Westand her horse Transcriptor. In this comicstyle textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narrative analysis. Along the trail, she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly, comic book style, Shane's Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Good, the Bad, and the Data?
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects > Research and information: general > Research methods / methodology
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Good, the Bad, and the Data?
Sally Campbell Galman
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The Good, the Bad, and the Data is available as paperback(ISBN 9781598746327)