Writing a Qualitative Study

The task of "composing or writing the narrative report" as Creswell calls it, acts as the cohesive or connective tissue holding the pieces of a study together. The so-called "narrative" nature of the report is an intrinsic property of qualitative research and lies in almost polar contrast to the report writing in quantitative research. While the quantitative report strives to objectively explain the data, the qualitative report endeavors to reflectively and reflexively expose it.

The major criteria discussed here (for the author to decide on many stylistic choices) are the (target) audience, type of encoding, and quotes. It seems to me that former criterion there influences decisions on the latter two,

Within each of the five approaches, there is a fundamental difference in the function of writing, While Narrative approach inherently uses most narrative technique, grounded theory would likely stay away farthest from it.