Styles of Qualitative Writing and Reporting – Virtual Workshop
Johnny Saldaña, Arizona State University’s School of Film, Dance, and Theatre

Hosted by The Qualitative Report at Nova Southeastern University (Virtual)
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern USA Time (1 Hour Lunch Break)
(Enrollment is limited)

 

Johnny Saldaña Biography

Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University’s School of Film, Dance, and Theatre. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time, Fundamentals of Qualitative Research, The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers, Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind, Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage, Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña, co-author with the late Miles and Huberman for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook, and co-author with Matt Omasta for Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life. Saldaña’s qualitative methods works have been cited and referenced in more than 27,000 research studies conducted in over 135 countries.

Styles of Qualitative Writing and Reporting

Qualitative researchers have a broad palette of writing styles we can use on an as-needed basis for the investigative or compositional task at hand. Eclecticism is an essential skill for documenting social inquiry. The more diverse our expressive repertoire, the more each mode informs the others and the more credible, vivid, and persuasive our accounts. In this one-day workshop, participants will gain in-class experience with twelve different writing styles for qualitative research reportage, ranging from the descriptive to the analytic, from the confessional to the critical, and from the poetic to the autoethnographic.

Workshop participants should bring something to write about—a research study in progress, a first draft report, or a completed study such as a thesis, dissertation, or published journal article. Participants should also have a personal device (e.g., laptop, tablet) or hardcopy materials (e.g., notepad, pens) for in-class writing exercises. (Miscellaneous qualitative data samples will be provided for those not involved with current projects.) Workshop content is derived from Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña (2018, Routledge) and the co-authored Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (2nd edition, 2022, SAGE).