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Writing up qualitative research / Harry F. Wolcott.

By: Wolcott, Harry F, 1929- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : SAGE , [2009]Edition: 3rd edition.Description: xiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781412970112 (paperback); 1412970113.Subject(s): Technical writing | Ethnology -- Authorship | Educational anthropologyDDC classification: 808.0666
Contents:
On your mark -- Get going -- Keep going -- Linking up -- Tightening up -- Finishing up -- Getting published.
Summary: "Writing Up Qualitative Research, Third Edition offers time-tested suggestions on every aspect of the process from beginning to end. In this new edition, author Harry Wolcott continues to focus on the "writing side" of qualitative research, while incorporating new features such as guidelines on how and where to use theory." -- Back cover.
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Writing Up Qualitative Research, Third Edition offers time-tested suggestions on every aspect of the process from beginning to end. In this new edition, author Harry Wolcott continues to focus on the "writing side" of qualitative research, while incorporating new features such as guidelines on how and where to use theory.This text is ideal as a supplementary text in any upper-level undergraduate or graduate seminar on the research process.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and indexes.

On your mark -- Get going -- Keep going -- Linking up -- Tightening up -- Finishing up -- Getting published.

"Writing Up Qualitative Research, Third Edition offers time-tested suggestions on every aspect of the process from beginning to end. In this new edition, author Harry Wolcott continues to focus on the "writing side" of qualitative research, while incorporating new features such as guidelines on how and where to use theory." -- Back cover.

CIT Module SOCI 8003 - Supplementary reading.

CIT Module EDUC 9025 - Core reading.

CIT Module EDUC 9010 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • About the Author/ About The Book
  • Preface
  • 1 On Your Mark . . .
  • 2 Get Going
  • 3 Keep Going
  • 4 Linking Up
  • 5 Tightening Up
  • 6 Finishing Up
  • 7 Getting Published
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Harry F. Wolcott (Ph.D. Stanford) taught at the University of Oregon, serving on both the faculties of education and anthropology. He authored several ethnographic texts that included his experiences among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia and with the African Beer Gardens of Bulawayo, Rhodesia, as well on ethnographic method and on writing itself, with a focus on qualitative research. His publications included: Transforming Qualitative Data (SAGE 1994); Art of Fieldwork (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2005); Ethnography: A Way of Seeing (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2008); Writing Up Qualitative Research (3rd ed., SAGE 2009); Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath: Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork (Altamira 2002), and Ethnography Lessons: A Primer (Left Coast Press, 2010).