Five approaches to qualitative inquiry
Creswell contrasts narrative, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study. He compares them across focus, data collection and analysis.
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design
3 ideas
Aligning philosophy, design and method
The book insists a study's paradigm, research question and procedures must cohere from top to bottom. Mismatch between them undermines rigor.
The data analysis spiral
Qualitative analysis is presented as an iterative spiral of managing, reading, describing, classifying and interpreting data. It is not a linear sequence of steps.