Customer Reviews

Writing Up Qualitative Research (Qualitative Research Methods)

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I found this book more helpful than any dissertation-writing manual, and will rely on it for future projects beyond the PhD. Wolcott's honest and funny writing style makes you feel like a friend, and his advice is truly useful. The book is a great motivator as well, particularly during those frustrating stages of writing/revising. I highly recommend this book to anyone sitting on a mound of qualitative data who needs a bit of companionship along the way.

This book has been very helpful in determining where to start and steps to make for completing a qualitative research project. It offers suggestions of "how to" and provides application tips that make a sometimes seemingly overwhelming project manageable.

I am writing a dissertation and this was not very helpful. It basically said get started, get going, keep going a nd told me all the reasons that I did not need to justify using qualitative research. It was a waste of money unless you needed a pep talk. Was of no use from a technical standpoint.

I ordered this book for my master's research and I loved the fact that the author can be funny about a topic that is not easy to write about. Rather than reading like a textbook, this book offered insightful and fun ideas for writing a professional paper. At first, I was not happy about the price for a small paperback book, but it was well worth it.

I purchased this book so that I could prepare myself for comps and writing my dissertation. Patton is a great writer, however, the information and opinions he presented were nothing new - it's not worth the money.

This book does a great job of offering a review of the process by which qualitative research is turned into a product. For example, it does a great job of stressing some of the key difficulties in this process, and how to overcome them. The book, however, then offers some advice that is beyond just writing qualitative research, but is applicable to any type of writing. This causes the book to ramble just a bit. So for all that advice, you are treat to some waste of space. Any way, this book is a so-so reference.