TY - JOUR
T1 - "Grab" and good science
T2 - Writing up the results of qualitative research
AU - Gilgun, Jane F.
PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - Qualitative researchers have an array of choices in how to write up their research. Yet many write in distanced, third-person voices and give short shrift to the voices of informants, as if neither they nor their informants were part of the research. In doing so, they might believe that their writing style is scientific. Unfortunately, such styles of writing not only silence their informants and themselves, but many times they also contradict the philosophies of science on which many forms of qualitative research are based. If our philosophies of science are science, then how we write up our research, when it is consistent with our science, must logically be scientific. "Grab," or writing that is both interesting and memorable, goes hand in hand with good science.
AB - Qualitative researchers have an array of choices in how to write up their research. Yet many write in distanced, third-person voices and give short shrift to the voices of informants, as if neither they nor their informants were part of the research. In doing so, they might believe that their writing style is scientific. Unfortunately, such styles of writing not only silence their informants and themselves, but many times they also contradict the philosophies of science on which many forms of qualitative research are based. If our philosophies of science are science, then how we write up our research, when it is consistent with our science, must logically be scientific. "Grab," or writing that is both interesting and memorable, goes hand in hand with good science.
KW - Chicago School of Sociology
KW - Constructivism
KW - Definitions of science
KW - Philosophy of science
KW - Qualitative research
KW - Writing social science
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U2 - 10.1177/1049732304268796
DO - 10.1177/1049732304268796
M3 - Article
C2 - 15611207
AN - SCOPUS:17844362317
SN - 1049-7323
VL - 15
SP - 256
EP - 262
JO - Qualitative Health Research
JF - Qualitative Health Research
IS - 2
ER -