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Qualitative researchers require and seek methods that deliver high-quality data for analysis. Timelining is one of a number of visual methodologies that have value in this regard. Timelining is a visual method focused on a time-based representation of events in respondents' lives; timelines deliver some form of visually organised and time-based representation of events in respondents' lives about the research issues in focus. Timelining is an extremely flexible method in practice. Timelines may vary in form, from highly structured to less structured; they may consist of a simple list of events by time, or an elaborated visual display or diagram, with or without added commentary on the events over time. They can be completed individually by research participants, by groups of participants, by the researcher, ...
by Kerry Chamberlain & Kathryn McGuigan ; edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams.
Includes bibliographical references and index.