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    Home Personal Development Research Writing

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    One way in which research differs from other forms of inquiry is that you need to
    justify virtually everything that you do. Your critics can challenge the validity or Evaluating Research
    relevance of your findings if they believe there was something non-typical about the What Makes a Question Important?
    people you selected for study, something biased in the way you selected people for
    What Makes a Question Answerable?
    study, something unfair about the groups you compared, something wrong with the
    way you phrased your questions, and so forth. Every aspect of your study design has What Makes a Study Persuasive?
    an influence on what you will learn from the study. What Makes a Study Ethical?

    Therefore, you need to have a rationale for every aspect of your study. To see how
    this rationale makes a differences, imagine that you are reading two different Reasoning with Evidence
    studies with similar designs and research methods, but with different rationales.
    Using Theories and Frameworks
    Which would you find more persuasive?
    The Problem of Hidden Beliefs
    How to Control your Self
    Rationale for: Study A Study B
    I was curious I noticed a discrepancy in the Doing Your Own Research
    research question
    about it research and wanted to test it
    Five Main Approaches
    These teachers represented the
    I happened to know How Much Time Will You Need?
    sample population other researchers have
    these teachers
    been studying Justifying Your Strategy

    I didn't bother to I compared them with another Choosing People to Study


    compare them with group who were similar to them in Guide to Interviewing
     
    Comparisons anyone else because I all respects except their knowledge
    Using Probes in an Interview
    knew they were honest about this one issue of interest to
    people me. Guide to Observing

    It was easiest for me to The data I collected were directly Labeling What You See
    Data collection do, didn't have time for relevant to the discrepancy I Guide to Surveys
    anything more wanted to learn about
    Controlling Your Self
    The patterns I see are consistent
    The patterns I see make
    with one version of this theory but
    sense and fit with my
    Interpretation not with the other. Therefore they
    own personal
    raise questions about the second
    experience
    version of this theory.

    The point of this little contrast is to show you how others will read your study. They
    will be looking to see how serious you are about really examining this issue closely,
    and really trying to learn something. 

     
    © Mary Kennedy, 2006

       

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