Qualitative research from start to finish / [electronic resource] Robert K. Yin.

What is qualitative research--and why might you consider doing such research? -- Equipping yourself to do qualitative research -- How to start a research study -- Choices in designing qualitative research studies -- Doing fieldwork -- Data collection methods -- Recording data -- Analyzing quantitative data, I: compiling, disassembling, and reassembling -- Analyzing qualitative data, II: interpreting and concluding -- Displaying qualitative data -- Composing research, to share it with others -- Broadening the challenge of doing qualitative research.

This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research-whether they want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it. All the major research phases are encompassed (startup, design, data collection, analysis, and composing), including newly emerging trends. Numerous easy-to-read vignettes show how other scholars have successfully implemented specific procedures. Equally distinctive, the book presents qualitative research as an adaptive craft. The array of choices among different procedures and methods enables readers to customize their own studies and to accommodate different worldviews and genres.