Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction

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Qualitative Data Analysis An Introduction

• Carol Grbich
• Chapter 10. Poetic Inquiry

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Poetic Inquiry

• Definition
• Poetic inquiry is a form of qualitative research
  that incorporates poetry as a component of an
  investigation. It requires the researcher to
  participate creatively in the reframing of data
  in order to bring the reader as close as possible
  to the original researcher/participant
  experiences.
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Poetic Inquiry

• Uses
• for exploring individual experiences or feelings
  of
• Self
• Other
• both.
• Used in
• Autobiography
• autoethnography
• narrative inquiry

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Data sources

• researcher response to existing literature or to
  current social or political events?
• 2. researchers field notes and/or their
  autoethnographical data?
• 3. participants interview transcripts
  created
• separately by the researcher
• or collaboratively between
  researcher and participants

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Process of poetic reframing

• During data collection
• Read the transcripts
• Undertake preliminary data analysis to gain
  information on all aspects of the research
  question
• When all the data is in
• Re read the transcripts together with any other
  data gathered (observations, visual and written
  documents)
• Make notes identifying themes.

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Process of poetic framing. (2)

• develop files of the themes
• Order and reorder these themes
• Transform themes/portraits into the poetic or
  combined styles that best portray the response to
  the research question
• Read aloud or display to others to gauge the
  effect
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Types of poetic form

• 1. Haiku - a poem written in three unrhymed
  lines of 5 7 5 syllables . This form can be
  repeated.
• Narrative poetry a story portrait with a
  beginning, middle and an end in any form but
  usually close to the spoken word
• Cinquain
• This is a poem with five lines.
• Line 1 has one word (the title).
• Line 2 has two words that describe the title.
  
• Line 3 has three words that tell the action.
• Line 4 has four words that express the feeling.
  in need
• Line 5 has one word, which recalls the title.
  

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Types of poetic form

• 4. Tanka - a poem of 31 syllables divided into 5
  lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables
• 5. Heroic couplet - Two successive lines of
  rhymed poetry in iambic pentameter
• 6. Quatrain a stanza of 4 lines where lines 2
  and 4 must rhyme
• 7. Canzone a lyrical poem with 5-6 stanzas and
  a shorter concluding stanza
• 8. Free/blank verse, - using rhymed/unrhymed
  lines with no fixed pattern mimicking ordinary
  speech
• 9. Prose poetry combines prose and poetry for
  emotional effect sometimes with metrical
  overtones.