ABSTRACT
Understanding the methodological tools available to qualitative researchers is a vital component of the research process. This chapter focuses on introducing graduate student researchers to three such tools—reading, observation, and artifact analysis. In addition to providing strategies for using each tool and examples from the work of other graduate-level researchers, the chapter offers advice on how to select particular tools that fit both the research question and the research setting, as well as prompts that immerse the students into low-stakes practice scenarios to learn how to use the tools.
