Course Description
Theoretical, ethical, and practical issues involved in transforming qualitative data into a written research report. Students, both in dissertation and pre-dissertation, will write representations of data they have already collected.
Athena Title
Writing Up Qualitative Resear
Prerequisite
QUAL 8410 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
a) identify theories of interpretation b) explore theories of representation c) assess data analysis software d) interpret/analyze qualitative data using various strategies e) practice different strategies of writing up data f) produce representation of data
Topical Outline
Crisis of representation Grounded and a priori theory Coding and categorizing data Computer assisted data analysis Authority and authorship Writing strategies Exploring alternative representations