TY - BOOK AU - Creswell, John W. TI - Qualitative inquiry & research design: choosing among five approaches SN - 9781412995306 AV - H 61 .C74 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Los Angeles, California PB - Sage Publications, Incorporation KW - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Philosophical assumptions and interpretive frameworks -- 3. Designing a qualitative study -- 4. Five qualitative approaches to inquiry -- 5. Five different qualitative studies -- 6. Introducing and focusing the study -- 7. Data collection -- 8. Data analysis and representation -- 9. Writing a qualitative study -- 10. Standards of validation and evaluation -- 11. "Turning the story" and conclusion N2 - In this Third Edition of his bestselling text, John W. Creswell explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. In his signature writing style, the author relates research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry in a highly accessible manner. He compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results ER -