Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach

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SAGE, 2005 - Social Science - 175 pages
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Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Second Edition provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. A bestseller in its First Edition, this invaluable book presents an innovative approach to the components of design and how they interact with each other. The text presents a clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components and highlights key design issues. Based on a course the author taught for seven years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the work is written in an informal, jargon-free style and incorporates many examples and hands-on exercises.
 

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Maxwell does an excellent job of explaining the process of qualitative research. The section I found particularly interesting was the clarification on the kind of research questions that a qualitative study should be asking.

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About the author (2005)

Joseph A. Maxwell is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University, where he teaches courses on research design and methods and on writing a dissertation proposal. He has published work on qualitative research and evaluation, mixed method research, sociocultural theory, Native American social organization, and medical education. He has also worked extensively in applied settings. He has presented seminars and workshops on teaching qualitative research methods and on using qualitative methods in various applied fields, and has been an invited speaker at conferences and universities in the United States, Puerto Rico, Europe, and China. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

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TitleQualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach
Issue 41 of Applied Social Research Methods
Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Joseph Alex Maxwell
AuthorJoseph A. Maxwell
Editionillustrated
PublisherSAGE, 2005
ISBN0761926070, 9780761926078
Length175 pages
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