Qualitative Research Proposals and Reports: A Guide: A Guide / Edition 3

by Patricia L. Munhall, Ron J. Chenail

Overview

The Fourth Edition of this popular, instructive guide provides the reader with essential information on formatting and reporting qualitative research abstracts and reports. The guide includes internet resources and appendices with examples of outlines of different methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763751111
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	11/08/2007
Series:	National League for Nursing Series (All Nln Titles)
Edition description:	3E
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Patricia Munhall, EdD, ARNP, NCPsyA, CNLP, FAAN, has been a Professor of Nursing for thirty years at various universities, including Hunter College, CUNY, and Teachers College, Columbia University. She also has been a psychoanalyst for 16 years. She has a Doctorate in Nursing from Columia University and graduated from The Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis as a Psychoanalyst. She is an international speaker on phenomenology as a research method and an approach to practice, an author or editor of eleven books, including phenomenologies, and over 60 manuscripts focusing on qualitative research, research studies, unknowing, phenomenology, and philosophical analysis. Patricia is founder and president of the International Institute for Human Understanding, which sponsors qualitative research conferences, workshops and consultations and is located presently in Miami. Patricia currently is writing, teaching, consulting, doing research and in clinical practice in Miami, Florida.

Ronald J. Chenail, PhD is Professor of Family Therapy and Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA. He is also editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the flagship journal of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and The Qualitative Report, the oldest online, open-access journal dedicated to qualitative inquiry scholarship.

Editorial Reviews

5 Stars! from Doody

In this book, the author coaches the reader through the elements of qualitative research proposal development and qualitative research reporting. This second edition differs from the first edition in that suggestions from researchers and students to clarify ambiguity in the guidelines are incorporated, and the author provides additional examples. This guide is intended to suggest a format that is appropriate for qualitative research designs in their broad sense. Students, faculty, and researchers are the intended audience. Clear and concise guidelines for addressing content to be included in a qualitative research proposal are presented. Next, directions for adding breadth, depth, and specifics to the proposal are suggested to produce the qualitative research report, which is written after the research is completed. Guidelines for what elements to include in the abstract are provided. Lastly, the table of contents from three examples of dissertation proposals and reports are presented. Novice and experienced researchers are sometimes expected to write qualitative research proposals or reports based on a format that is not necessarily appropriate. This is similar to trying to place a square peg in a round hole. The end result is that the square peg does not fit. The author offers a useful guide to the elements that are necessary in a qualitative proposal and report, thus producing a fit that is appropriate to qualitative research designs.

Susan M. Chappell

Reviewer: Susan M. Chappell, PhD, RN (The University of Texas at Arlington)
Description: In this book, the author coaches the reader through the elements of qualitative research proposal development and qualitative research reporting. This second edition differs from the first edition in that suggestions from researchers and students to clarify ambiguity in the guidelines are incorporated, and the author provides additional examples.
Purpose: This guide is intended to suggest a format that is appropriate for qualitative research designs in their broad sense.
Audience: Students, faculty, and researchers are the intended audience.
Features: Clear and concise guidelines for addressing content to be included in a qualitative research proposal are presented. Next, directions for adding breadth, depth, and specifics to the proposal are suggested to produce the qualitative research report, which is written after the research is completed. Guidelines for what elements to include in the abstract are provided. Lastly, the table of contents from three examples of dissertation proposals and reports are presented.
Assessment: Novice and experienced researchers are sometimes expected to write qualitative research proposals or reports based on a format that is not necessarily appropriate. This is similar to trying to place a square peg in a round hole. The end result is that the square peg does not fit. The author offers a useful guide to the elements that are necessary in a qualitative proposal and report, thus producing a fit that is appropriate to qualitative research designs.

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