Dear fellow writer,
Welcome back to Swordcraft, my new series of short, sharp weekly videos for writers who want to hone their wordcraft, one snippet at a time.
Today’s swordsnip is the fourth in a 6-part sequence for paid subscribers called Research Bites, which offers bite-sized summaries of research articles on academic and professional writing.
This week we’ll take a quick look at Seven Ways of Looking at a Data Set, a playful-yet-serious article that I published in Qualitative Inquiry in 2018 along with my colleagues Marion Blumenstein, Alistair Kwan, Louisa Shen, and Evija Trofimova.
What happens when five academic researchers, all representing quite different disciplinary perspectives, get their hands on the same set of open-ended data questionnaires? What can we learn from their different findings — and from their different ways of looking?
Paid subscribers can find a downloadable pdf of the article at the bottom of this post.
Kia pai tō koutou rā (have a great day) – and keep on writing!
Helen
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