By Catherine Marshall and Gretchen B. Rossman
“The researcher can choose to incorporate several somewhat more specialized or focused methods in the design of a study, as appropriate. Each of those described in this chapter is a full and complete method in and of itself and has a methodological literature explicating its nuances and subtleties”
This free chapter comes from the sixth edition of Designing Qualitative Research, which gives students, research managers, policy analysts, and applied researchers clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research and addresses the complexity, flexibility, and controversies of qualitative research’s many genres.
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