After mentioning several studies that she felt illustrated quality in their qualitative research (Cherny 1999; Danet 2001; Markham 1998; Turkle 1996; Baym 2000), Baym states that the arguments developed in these works are compelling because of “at least six interrelated strengths they share: they are grounded in theory and data, …

Statement about qualitative research that stuck out to me in Baym’s “Finding the Quality in Qualitative Internet Research”…
“Although counterarguments may be a little harder to predict, high-quality qualitative work should anticipate those counterarguments and provide a persuasive evidence-based case against them both in the structuring of the research design and …

…Rhetoric can never be reduced to symbology. Logic is increasingly becoming “symbolic logic”; that is its tendency. But rhetoric always comes to us in well-fleshed words, and that is because it must deal with the world, the thickness, stubbornness, and power of it.
Richard Weaver, “Language is Sermonic”