Composing Qualitative Research [Paperback]

Karen Golden-Biddle (Author), Karen Locke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 3, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1412905613 | ISBN-13: 978-1412905619 | Edition: 2nd

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.

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"For professionals and students in the social sciences and management, Golden-Biddle and Locke explain how to transform field work experience of qualitative research into journal articles." (SciTech Book News )

About the Author

Karen Golden-Biddle is Professor, Health System Management and Change in the Strategic Management and Organization department, University of Alberta School of Business. She earned her Ph.D in management and policy studies from Case Western Reserve University. Her research examines the processes and symbolics of system change, and the use of qualitative data in theorizing organizational phenomena. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Science. She was Principal Investigator on a recently completed 5-year investigation of organizational change in the Canadian health care system funded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. This field research involved a team of interdisciplinary researchers from multiple universities working in collaboration with practicing managers. Karen has also served on numerous editorial boards and was recently elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management.

 

Karen Locke is W. Brooks George Professor of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary’s school of business, where she is a member of the management area. She joined the faculty there in 1989 after earning her Ph.D in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University. Her work focuses on developing a sociology of knowledge in organizational studies with an emphasis on the production of scientific texts and on the use of qualitative research for the investigation of organizational phenomena. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Studies in Organization, Culture and Society, and has authored Grounded Theory In Management Research. Her current work continues her interest in the processes of qualitative researching and focuses on exploring and explicating their creative and imaginative dimensions. Karen also serves as an associate action editor for Organizational Research Methods and as a member of the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal.
Personal website: http://business.wm.edu/homepage.asp?PID=425

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 2nd edition (August 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412905613
• ISBN-13: 978-1412905619
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reporting Research is Not Covered in College English, February 11, 2007

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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By the time the student has gotten far enough along that he is ready to publish his new and exciting research it has probably been a long time since he/she has had a course on writing. It is also quite likely that the things he was taught in his writing classes is dramatically different from the somewhat sterile, unadorned and disembodied style typically used for academic writing -- yes, you've got to learn how to write dull.

Beyond these goals, the book concentrates on how to formulate a research paper into something that will convey the information the writer of the paper wants to convey. This includes providing an introduction, details on how (the usual) large amounts of data are to be presented. Handling feedback, be it unofficial in the form of friendly reviewers or the peer review of the selected journal. Re-writing of the paper to include such comments and possibly updating the data.

Basically the authors of this small book want to encourage 'writing about writing.' They want to create an environment where the actual writing of a paper is just part of the process and a subject for study and discussion in its own right.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOULD RECOMMEND, June 10, 2009

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M. ODonnell (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Composing Qualitative Research (Paperback)

I am a graduate student in chemistry education research. This book was required reading in a gerontology class I took on advanced qualitative research methods. I thought this book was excellent and would recommend it to anyone interested in how to write and think about qualitative data. (The first edition is nowhere near as good as the second edition! I accidentally got the first edition and couldn't understand why the book was assigned. Once I had the newer edition, I loved the book.)

5.0 out of 5 stars fabolous, January 3, 2007

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Mireya Las Heras Maestro - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Composing Qualitative Research (Paperback)

is a very good and useful book if you start to write your own disertation, papers, and conference submissions. It shows that the authors have a lot of experince and have destilled it for other people to learn from it.