Assignment: Qualitative Reasoning And Analysis

Assignment: Qualitative Reasoning And Analysis

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Question Description
Discussion: Literature Search, Part II

In this Discussion, you will conduct a literature review of your topic area, focusing on a research study that uses one of the qualitative approaches covered this week.

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review the reading materials about the different approaches in this week’s Learning Resources.

Conduct your own literature search to find a published study that represents one of the Week 3 approaches. Remember, you may have to broaden your search terms to find an appropriate study.

Review the following resources before proceeding with your own article review

Write a 3-paragraph Discussion post in which you respond to the following:

Summarize the characteristics of the approach of the research article you chose during your literature search.

Summarize the research article, including the citation and sufficient information for your classmates and Instructor to locate the article.

Present a short critique of that article based on the “R8360 Guidelines for Reading and Evaluating Qualitative Research Articles” document.

CXU_WK3_Wksp:

Revisit your topic as a research problem which you began with and add to or refine your research problem and purpose statement process. Add other comments that summarize the development of your research ideas.

CXU_WK3_Ass:

Assignment: Qualitative Research Approaches Matrix, Part II

In order for you to select the qualitative research approach that best fits your research question, you will need to develop a deeper familiarity with the approaches available to you. This week’s Assignment is the second of a two-part activity designed to broaden and deepen your base of knowledge of qualitative research approaches.

In Week 2, you began completing a Qualitative Research Approaches Matrix Template with four qualitative research approaches. For this week’s Assignment, you will add to that matrix by including four more research approaches.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Review this week’s readings, focusing on the differences among the following four qualitative research approaches:

Social constructionism and narrative inquiry

Systems theory

Ethnography/autoethnography

Interactive and participatory qualitative applications

Locate the Qualitative Research Approaches Matrix Template you completed from last week’s Assignment submission.

Complete the Qualitative Research Approaches Matrix Template for the four approaches highlighted this week. Some of the cells have been pre-populated with sample entries or with prompts to help you focus your comparisons.

CXU_Wk3_Jour:

For this week’s Journal entry, consider and respond to all three of the following prompts:

Progress: What has been happening in the course since the previous entry?

Problems: What obstacles/challenges have you faced with regard to the course and with regard to developing your research question and approach for your Final Project?

Plans: Look toward the next week. What challenges are you considering to resolve? Consider how your idea for your research project is evolving.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.