Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Fourth Edition is Volume III of the three-volume paperback versions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. This portion of the handbook delves into the essential tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials. It comprises the complete handbook’s “Part IV: Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials” and “Part V: The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation.” The book introduces researchers to fundamental methods for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting qualitative data. Part 1 explores narrative inquiry, critical arts-based inquiry, oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. It then delves into analysis techniques such as computer-assisted methodologies, focus groups, and strategies for analyzing talk and text. Part 2 discusses evidence, interpretive adequacy, forms of representation, post-qualitative inquiry, the new information technologies and research, the politics of evidence, writing, and evaluation practices.