Collecting Qualitative Data

I read this text as part of a qualitative research course. It provided an adequate overview to qualitative research. I found the early chapters that defined the different types of qualitative study (e.g., phenomenology, ethnographic studies, grounded theory, etc.) much more informative than later chapters. The course for which this text was used was condensed into an eight-week timeframe, which was too brief to develop a more fond appreciation of the text.

While the Guest, et al. text provides was helpful (overall) and certainly applicable to the course in which I used it, I would much prefer texts by Joseph Maxwell (Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach) and David de Vaus (Research Design in Social Research) as introductory texts for qualitative research.