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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook(2nd Edition)

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As an advisor of doctoral students, I keep several copies of this book on the shelf so I always have one on hand to loan to students. I find it a very useful resource for students who are planning qualitative research.

As a first time qualitative researcher, I found this book indispensible during my data analysis. It clearly explains multiple analytic techniques, providing the researcher with many alternatives to use in developing conclusions. The descriptions are easy to understand and supported by insightful examples. If you are looking for a roadmap to guide you through qualitative research, this is the GPS of qualitative data analysis.

I am working on my dissertation. This book got me out of my thinking chair and to my writing desk. The philosophical approach to qualitative research is very contemporary and will take us into whole new areas of research to improve and 'polish' humanity. My only objection is the cost. Does a book like this really have to cost over $60? Too much.

This book offers a new stance about qualitative research... It differs from the classic "grounded theory" approach and gives useful tools to deal with qualitative research. Must be read if you deal with qualitative research !!!

When one thinks of qualitaitve research one tends to think immediately of focus groups and face to face interviews - but increasingly with research the game is shifting toward online surveys that generate wonderful amounts of open-ended content, and research projects may also involve ethnography and content analysis to gain rich insights. In other words the focus of the professional must shift toward that quesiton: "what on earth do we do with all this 'soft' data?" Those verbatims, those observation notes... there's a huge amount of data waiting for interpretation. Can you systematically analyse it?

Here in 13 comprehensive chapters, over 338 pages the issues are explored from multiple angles, and what Miles & Huberman have achieved in this sourcebook is a thorough starting point for researchers who want to reliably and systematically - dare I say, scientifically - interpret the soft data they must work with. This book is by turns brilliant and inspiring - helped along by clear prose that talks to us as professional colleagues.

I recommend this one very strongly. Your colleagues will blanche when they see you carrying this big grey book - but if they get over the seemingly dry subject matter, they see that these authors have prepared a pathway along which serious qualitative researchers ought to travel.

Don't let the date published scare you away from this book. The guides are applicable to any person wishing to perform qualitative data analysis.

This is still the best guide to qualitative analysis available. The approach is uniquely supportive, practical and methodologically sophisticated. I found it an invaluable resource for my own PhD and now get the same response from my students. My only regret is that there isn't a third edition.

This is a definite must-have, must-read for all qualitative researchers at the beginning of their research journey. Very easy to read and flip through.

What I like about this is that it offers very concrete steps about how to take data and pull it all together. How to start linking ideas, put together themes, develop more complex matrices, etc. I will say that the text is rather difficult reading and the examples, almost all from evaluation of educational programs, are often difficult to understand and follow. If you have some experience with qualitative data, this book may be helpful. I think I'll still have to do more reading to understand the analysis process, though.

This book is one of the main reasons I was able to tackle my dissertation so effectively. It is priceless.