Writing Qualitatively (Virtual Workshop)

Marcus Weaver-Hightower and  Jennifer Wolgemuth

Hosted by The Qualitative Report at Nova Southeastern University (Virtual)
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Eastern USA Time (1 Hour Lunch Break)
Registration Now Open

Workshop Description

Writing up qualitative studies challenges even the most skilled qualitative researchers. How does one go from data analysis and interpretation to convincing presentation of findings and insights? How might writing qualitatively differ from conventional scientific and academic writing? What general expectations of qualitative writing do academic audiences, including journal editors and peer reviewers bring? Despite these known challenges, qualitative researchers rarely receive much explicit instruction on writing, whether in their graduate training or in methodological texts. As such, composing excellent qualitative write-ups remains elusive for many otherwise excellent researchers.

Undaunted, Marcus and Jenni directly address these and other writing challenges, demystifying qualitative writing skills and strategies. Their workshop covers foundations and goals of qualitative writing, how to write to show you were present in the research, how to write about and with qualitative data, how to craft valid qualitative findings and interpretations, how to describe qualitative methods, and basic revision strategies to make your prose strong(er). In a dynamic balance between explicit instruction and individual and small group activities, Marcus and Jenni will ensure participants have numerous opportunities both for hands-on practice and for addressing their personal writing questions.

Workshop content is derived in part from Weaver-Hightower’s How to Write Qualitative Research (2019, Routledge).

The workshop will take place via the Zoom platform.

Presenter Information

Marcus Weaver-Hightower is Professor of Foundations of Education at Virginia Tech. His work has focused on politics and policy in education around the globe, including on gender and sexuality and on school food. Within qualitative methods he has focused on arts-based research, particularly the use of the comics form to present research, and on qualitative writing. He is author of How to Write Qualitative Research (Routlledge, 2019) and a forthcoming text on autoethnography.

 

 

 

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of South Florida. A longtime lover of qualitative research and curiously minded scholar of social science research, she explores boundaries drawn within and around qualitative research – seeking to expand possibilities for thinking, doing, and writing qualitative research, particularly across disciplines such as behavior analysis, education, business, and health. She is co-editor ofExpanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data, available early Fall 2024.