Interpretive description / Sally Thorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorne, Sally E. (Sally Elizabeth), 1951-

Series:

Developing qualitative inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Qualitative research.

Academic writing.

Education--Research.

Education.

Education--Research--Methodology.

Knowledge management.

Research Design.

Qualitative Research.

Medical Subjects:

Research Design.

Qualitative Research.

Physical Description:

272 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2008]

Summary:

This book is designed to guide both new and more seasoned researchers through the steps of conceiving, designing, and implementing coherent research capable of generating new insights in clinical settings. Drawing from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and substantive strands, interpretive description provides a bridge between objective neutrality and abject theorizing, producing results that are academically credible, imaginative, and clinically practical. Replete with examples from a host of research settings in health care and other arenas, the volume will be an ideal text for applied research programs. Foreword by Margarete Sandelowski.

Contents:

Qualitative research in the applied disciplines

Cultivating questions in the clinical field

Scaffolding a study

Framing a study design

Strategizing a credible study

Entering the field

Constructing data

Making sense of data

Conceptualizing findings

Writing findings

Making sense of findings

Disseminating knowledge

Enhancing credibility

Advancing evidence with interpretive description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-262) and index.

ISBN:

1598743295

9781598743296

1598743309

9781598743302

OCLC:

227328589