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"Written in an informal, jargon-free style, [this book] provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. The text offers an original, innovative model of design based on a systemic rather than a linear or typological strucure, which is well suited for designing studies and writing research proposals"--Page 4 of cover.
"Incorporates examples and hands-on exercises"--Publisher's website.
A model for qualitative research design -- Goals : why are you doing this study? -- Conceptual framework : what do you think is going on? -- Research questions : what do you want to understand? -- Methods : what will you actually do? -- Validity : how might you be wrong? -- Research proposals : presenting and justifying a qualitative study.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
Applied social research methods series ; v. 41