Composing Qualitative ResearchCrafting Theoretical Points from Qualitative Research

Providing both theoretical and practical guidance, this book will assist students and researchers who need to transform data organized around the metaphor of `story' in order to illuminate the importance of crafting data into a framework that appeals to the intended audience.Each chapter covers a different aspect of creating a story: disclosing, telling and revising for publication. Each chapter also focuses on the writing issues researchers face as they take a manuscript from invention to publication and offers useful strategies to address these issues.