Transforming Qualitative Data: Description Analysis and Interpretation

About this book

After the glamour of working in the field is over you now face the daunting challenge of transforming your field notes and interview tapes into a completed study. But where do you start? In Transforming Qualitative Data Harry F. Wolcott guides you through the process of completing your research study. Beginning with an introductory chapter that presents his views on ethnography he explores the transformation process by breaking it down into three related activities: description analysis and interpretation. To illustrate each point he critically examines his own work using nine of his previous studies as illustrations. Then he shows you how to learnand to teachqualitative research by applying the three principles outlined in the volume. Written with the usual wit and brilliance shown in Wolcotts work Transforming Qualitative Data is a major statement on doing research by one of the master ethnographers of our time.