TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards,Lyn
TI  - Handling qualitative data: a practical guide 
SN  - 0761942580
AV  - H62 .R473 2005
U1  - 300.723 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, CA
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Qualitative research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Recherche qualitative
KW  - M�ethodologie
KW  - Informatique
KW  - Kwalitatieve gegevens
KW  - gtt
KW  - Data-analyse
KW  - Kwalitatieve methoden
KW  - Onderzoeksmethoden
KW  - M�ethodologie de recherche
KW  - rasuqam
KW  - Guide (Descripteur de forme)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Setting up -- Setting up your project -- Qualitative data -- Data records -- Working with the data -- Up from the data -- Coding -- Handling ideas -- Making sense of your data -- What are you aiming for? -- Searching the data -- Seeing a whole -- Telling it
N2  - Handling Qualitative Data introduces students and practitioners to qualitative research in a uniquely practical manner. Firstly, it recognizes that for many novice researchers, data, rather than methods and their philosophical underpinnings, are the point of departure. Secondly, it advocates a progressive accumulation of skills and understanding of methodological issues as they are needed. This enables the student to perform efficaciously from the start by immediately being in a position to handle, reflect on and get results from, small amounts of data, giving them a launch pad to more complex endeavours. The book provides pragmatic, informal and succinct assistance in the processes of meeting, sorting, coding, documenting and exploring unstructured records. It smoothly integrates software use into data handling as and when it is necessary, with discussion of challenges. It guides the reader to debates about the nature and interpretation of such data and the goals of valid and useful outcomes from qualitative analysis. This text will assist novice researchers to do justice to such data, whatever their background or opportunities for further methods training
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