Coding and Analysis -- Thematic Analysis -- Themes, Emergent or Otherwise -- The Key Characteristics of Thematic Analysis -- The Inductive Approach -- Feedback and Comparison -- Saturation -- GEN-BOOK Forms of Thematic Analysis -- Meaning Generation and Confirmation -- Procedures for Making Meaning -- Procedures for Verifying Meaning -- "Research Displays" That Incorporate Meaning and Verification -- Within-Case Displays -- Cross-Case Displays -- Description and Exploration in Cross-Case Displays -- Ordering and Explanation in Cross-Case Displays -- GEN-BOOK Approaches to Meaning Generation and Verification -- Synthesis and Illumination -- Analyzing Artifacts and Documents -- Analyzing Visual Data -- Computers and Qualitative Data -- Using Computers for Qualitative Research -- Using Computers for Qualitative Analysis -- Moving from Analysis to Evaluation -- Qualitative Evaluation Models -- Analyzing in Qualitative Science and Qualitative Inquiry -- Analysis and Qualitative Science -- Analysis and Qualitative Inquiry -- A Final Look at Analysis -- Analysis and the Mirror, Window, and Lantern -- Planning Your Research Proposal: Creating a Research Proposal Outline -- Narrating -- Once upon a Time... -- Reflecting on Narrating -- Narrative and Human Understanding -- Story Genres -- Myth -- Fable -- Folktale -- Narrative -- Narrative Universals -- Phenomenology and Narrative -- Postmodernism and Narrative -- Metanarratives and Postmodern Genres -- Analyzing Narrative Data -- Conversation Analysis -- Narrative Analysis -- Narrative Influences on Research Thinking -- Narrating and the Mirror, Window, and Lantern -- Planning Your Research Proposal: First Draft of the Research Proposal -- Writing -- Focusing the Expert Case Study Report -- Reflecting on Research Writing -- Rhetoric and Research Writing -- A Quick List of Important Rhetorical Devices -- Specialized Rhetorical Tropes -- Rhetorical Trope Awareness -- From Rhetoric to the Research Tale -- The Research Tale -- The Realist Tale -- The Confessional Tale -- The Impressionist Tale -- The Less Common Tale -- The Practice of Research Writing -- Get into a Routine -- Find Your Focus -- Don't Duck the Details -- Know When and How to Get Feedback -- Follow Accepted Conventions -- GEN-BOOK Guides to Good Research Writing -- Exploring Alternative Models for Qualitative Research Writing -- Evaluating Qualitative Writing -- Writing as Qualitative Research -- Collective Biography -- Literary Analysis and Ethnography -- Poetry -- Writing and the Mirror, Window, and Lantern -- Going Beyond the Skills -- Planning Your Research Proposal: Final Draft of the Research Proposal -- The Seven Deadly Sins of Qualitative Research -- Standards, Virtues, and Pitfalls -- Murphy's Law -- The Primacy of the Research Question -- Bad Judgement in Qualitative Research -- The Seven Deadly Sins -- The Wisdom of the Seven Deadly Sins -- The Sin of Competitiveness, or "One Size Does Not Fit All" -- The Sin of Appropriation, or "Qualitative Research Is Not an Envelope" -- The Sin of Rigidity, or "You Cannot Tame Everything" -- The Sin of Superficiality, or "A Comfortable Idea Is Probably Wrong" -- The Sin of Sentimentality, or "The World Is Not for Your Entertainment" -- The Sin of Narcissism, or "Life Will Go on Without You" -- The Sin of Timidity, or "A Good Idea Is Worth Defending" -- Dealing with the Deadly Sins -- An Informal Exercise -- Once and Future Qualitative Research -- Capturing Qualitative Research -- The Beginnings of the Qualitative Tradition -- The March Toward Quantification -- The Scientific Paradigm Shifts -- Social Science Tackles Social Reality -- The Key Perspectives Fall into Place -- Histories of Qualitative Research Within the Disciplines -- The Three Directions of Qualitative Practice -- Moving Against Quantitative Ideas -- Moving with Quantitative Ideas -- Moving Away from Quantitative Ideas -- Questions from the Frontiers of Qualitative Research -- Is There a Spiritual Dimension to Qualitative Research? -- Is Qualitative Research Under Attack? -- How Should We Prepare the Next Generation of Qualitative Researchers? -- Six Quick Trips to the Far Frontiers -- Back to the Quiet Place.