The Good, the Bad, and the Data: Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

Description

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographer―a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West―and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narrative analysis. Along the trail, she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly, comic book style, Shane’s Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Dedication......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 7 Introduction......Page 8 1. Showdown at the Coffehouse......Page 10 2. On the Trail of the Lonesome Data Analyst......Page 20 3. They Coded with their Boots On......Page 32 4. Write, Vaquero!......Page 48 5. The Great Train Robbery or Doing Narrative Analysis......Page 56 6. The Discourse Kid......Page 62 7. Analyzing and Understanding "Other Kinds" of Data......Page 69 8. Calamity Shane......Page 80 9. Time to Hit the Old Dusty Audit Trail: Reliability and Validity Concerns......Page 88 10. Our Hero Takes her Final Bow......Page 98 Works Cited......Page 102 About the Author......Page 104