Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches
"Creswell does an excellent job categorizing the various qualitative methods into five approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study...The author has expanded on and updated the information he presented in the first edition of the book (Creswell, 1998), including discussion of the various schools of thought that have developed among qualitative researchers since the mid 1990's...Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing among five approachesis a highly informative book; researchers will likely return again and against to the book as they expand their comfort zone within qualitative research."                                                                                 —Peggy M. Delmas,University of Alabama(Peggy M. DelmasNational ACademic ADvising Association2007-12-07)"This introductory research text [...] covers five approaches to qualitative research and compares them side-by-side. [This book] covers the basics in qualitative research; content which can easily be adapted to suit the needs of budding applied linguistics researchers [as well]."(Gary BarkhuizenNew Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics2009-03-13)