Completing a Qualitative Project: Details and Dialogue

What do I do after the data analysis is done? This is one of the questions that plague most writers doing qualitative research, and it is one of the key questions that inform this new work by Janice Morse, Director of the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta. Together with a contributor panel of 22 renowned and frequently-published qualitative research authors, Dr. Morse explores a wide range of topics, from the nuts and bolts (protecting participantsÆ confidentiality, finishing a project, developing the writing topic, finding other approaches), to the angst of the publishing process (critiquing qualitative research dealing with refection, responding to criticism), and from the methodological (linking qualitative and quantitative research, and performing participatory action research and qualitative meta-analysis) to application (generalizability in qualitative research, the politicking of research results, qualitative research in policy development). These discussions make Completing a Qualitative Project a perfect companion volume for Dr. MorseÆs early volumes, Qualitative Nursing Research and Critical Issues in Qualitative Research. WhatÆs more, since the development of the book provided for input from the contributors on the othersÆ chapters, each article combines the wisdom of the entire contributor panel and is followed by a dialogue on a related topic. These dialogues resulted from intense brainstorming sessions among the contributors. In perusing the book readers will be comforted to learn that they are not alone in their qualitative writing endeavors. Completing a Qualitative Project is intended to inform, support, cajole, and inspireùaltogether and enlightening read!

Table of Contents:
Recognizing the Power of Qualitative Research - Janice M Morse DIALOGUE On Terminating a Project Writing It Up - Joyceen S Boyle Dissecting the Dissertation DIALOGUE What Do I Publish? The Politics of Publishing - Juliene G Lipson Protecting Participants′ Confidentiality DIALOGUE Coauthorship Presenting Qualitative Research Up Close - Holly Skodol Wilson and Sally Ambler Hutchinson Visual Literacy in Poster Presentations DIALOGUE Other Ways to Do Things Meaning through Form - Judy R Norris Alternative Modes of Knowledge Representation DIALOGUE On `Helping′ or Working with Students The Art (and Science) of Critiquing Qualitative Research - Sally Thorne ADVICE Publish or Perish Strategies for Overcoming the Rage of Rejection - Phyllis Noerager Stern The Case of the Qualitative Researcher DIALOGUE The Downside of Blind Review Responding to Criticism - Judith E Hupcey DIALOGUE The Application of Theory Considering Theory Derived from Qualitative Research - Janice M Morse DIALOGUE Generalizability Generalizability in Qualitative Research - Joy L Johnson Excavating the Discourse DIALOGUE On Labeling a Research Program Programmatic Qualitative Research - Margarete J Sandelowski Or, Appreciating the Importance of Gas Station Pumps DIALOGUE Research Programs Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Research - Joan Bottorff New Avenues for Programmatic Research DIALOGUE On Intervention Clinical Utilization/Application of Qualitative Research - Janice Swanson, Roberta Durham and Judith Albright DIALOGUE On PAR Participatory Action Research - Judith Wuest and Marilyn Merritt-Gray Practical Dilemmas and Emancipatory Possibilities BRAINSTORMING Sorting out Meta-Analysis Qualitative Meta-Analysis - Rita Schreiber, Dauna Crooks and Phyllis Noerager Stern THE DEAD DOG SECTION Explaining Methods The Politicking of Research Results - Katharyn A May DIALOGUE As Hired Guns Qualitative Research in Policy Development - Martha Ann Carey THE DEAD DOG SECTION What to Do When Stumped by the Media Policy as Forethought in Qualitative Research - Marjorie A Muecke A Paradigm From Developing Country Social Scientists

About the Author :
Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.