I have not seen Corbin and Strauss's 4th edition, but I have used prior editions quite a bit. I find their examples of techniques very helpful, e.g. memoing, diagramming, coding. Attaching Amazon link.
I agree with with the Maxwell recommendation for a good general approach to qualitative analysis- see attachment for a sample chapter openly available via the publisher's website. I also find the work of David Silverman, Jennifer Mason and Alan Bryman useful and most texts by Sage Publications.
However you may wish a more specific text depending on the type of qualitative research you are doing. For example, there are specialist papers/chapters that offer more detail than a generalist approach; for example there is a world of difference when analyzing different types of qualitative data from different perspectives - e.g. ethnographic analysis of observational data (see Paul Atkinson's work) differs markedly from a discourse or conversation analysis of talk or text (eg. John Heritage), which differs from a grounded theory (Charmaz's tome) or framework analysis of interviews.
As you see there are a myriad of books and approaches, it all depends whether you want something general or more specific.
Hello I thought I might add two papers that be of interest, after reading a lot of textbooks although they are helpful, these articles I found helped for the actual analysis process itself.
Attride-Stirling, J. (2001). Thematic networks: An analytic tool for qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 1(3), 385-405.
Morse, J. M. (2008). Confusing Categories and Themes. Qualitative Health Research, 18(6), 727-728. doi: 10.1177/1049732308314930
As a student and a researcher on grounded theory, I found the book Constructing Grounded Theory (Introducing Qualitative Methods series) by Kathy Charmaz very practical and useful. For a post-graduate student beginning with that methodology, the book provides the right level of depth and focus that researchers using that methodology would find useful.
John Creswell's "Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design:Choosing Among Five Traditions, and/or Sharlene Nagy Hess-Biber and Patricia Leavy, "The Practice of Qualitative Research, 2nd Ed"
Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists by Anselm L. Strauss has really good examples though is quite advanced. Less modestly, see "The Quality of Morrissey is Not Strained" on my academia.edu page ...
Qualitative data appear in many forms - textual, visual, observational. The researcher may use content analysis or thematic analysis, depending on the research question being answered. There will be no one article or book that is a silver bullet. I'd recommend you go to Amazon.com (as a starting point) and do a search for Analyzing Qualitative Data. Use the Look Inside feature to skim the returns. Next, go to your local library and ask the librarian to point you to texts of this nature. You know your students, so, you'll be able to identify material appropriate for them.
Igor Pietkiewicz, thanks. Your paper is really very useful contribution. It can be a useful reading for my students as well. I teach methodology classes and was trying to find good readings, your paper has all the qualities required: short, precise, has examples, and describes theoretical orientation as well. I appreciate and thank you.
I found the Strauss & Corbin (1998) book "Basics of Qualitative Research Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory" to be very helpful. It is a Sage publication.
In my graduate level qualitative research course I use
Gibson, William; & Andrew Brown (2009). Working with Qualitative Data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
One of my students purchased & recommended Saldana, Johnny (2013), The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Sage. The book is all about the coding process and types of phenomenon that might be coded. I'm thinking of requiring that text as well.
An easy introduction to content analysis is:
Zhang, Y., & Wildemuth, B. (2009). Qualitative analysis of content. In Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library (pg 308-319). Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited.
There are literally dozens of approaches to qualitative analysis, so it would help if you could say more about your research topic and the goals you have for the results from your analysis.
Having said that, I second the nomination of Charmaz on Grounded Theory.
Another very popular source is Braun & Clarke on "Using thematic analysis in psychology," Qualitative Research in Psychology 2006; 3: 77-101. I personally find their approach to lack enough specificity to be truly useful, but they have over 10,000 cites in Google Scholar, so a great many people have a higher opinion of this method than I do.