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"Creswell does an excellent job categorizing the various qualitative methods into five approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study...The author has expanded on and updated the information he presented in the first edition of the book (Creswell, 1998), including discussion of the various schools of thought that have developed among qualitative researchers since the mid 1990's...Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing among five approaches is a highly informative book; researchers will likely return again and against to the book as they expand their comfort zone within qualitative research."
-Peggy M. Delmas, University of Alabama
“Creswell has produced an even more outstanding and valuable text for qualitative research than the First Edition.” -Edith King,University of Denver
Like the bestselling First Edition, this new version explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Using an accessible and engaging writing style, author John W. Creswell 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.
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Reader Friendly Creswell
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For an academic text on Qualitative Research, the book is surprisingly easy reading and is user friendly. It is informative, concepts are clearly explained, and the chapters are organised for maximum accessibility with discussion questions, additional notes, summary, tables and visual representations. Overall, Creswell provides structured guidance to help the reader understand and use each of the five approaches, and the templates for data analysis, plan for qualitative inquiry and guided activities are particularly helpful.Thumbs up!
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Very well research. Very well written. A must for anybody interested in qualitative research. Can be read in its entirety as it is very interesting to read. Should be kept permanently for references.
Good resource
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Good resource for learning about qualitative reserach methods. Students should this a very valuable edition to their library.
Qulaitative Inquiry and Research Design
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This book is written for the student researhcer, but gives seasoned researchers extra resource references to study on their own. This is easy to understand and well written. I ordered it for a doctoral class and to use for my Dissertation.
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I liked an anecdote the author commented at the beginning of the book, referring that a same problem could be treated since different methodologies of inquiry, it helped me. But he approaches qualitative inquiry from a single epistemological perspective, I had to use other authors to have a broader view.