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Week 10
Sampling Strategies, Ethnography and Data Coding

Preparations
Read:
  • Chapter 4 Qualitative Research in Scheyvens
  • DDR ch 19
  • DRRW 17
  • Study NVivo
Complete your literature review, submit it and integrate it into your project plan. Then continue to expand your plan into a project proposal
Face to Face Discussion

Breaking the power of sociology in your mindsets with its emphasis on interviews and quantitative data is not an easy task.  Getting up to speed with more useful qualitative options is even more daunting.  This week the emphasis on ethnography should further assist you in defining your approach and writing it up into your project proposal.

We will also discuss Literature Review.

Consider this Menu and work out your worth.  This contributes to the discussion on relating to supervisors in research project proposal literature review is about your methodology and some initial readings around the topic.  

Remember your project proposal  literature review will need a focus on both the nature of your methodologies and  on the topic of your research itself.  In the final thesis/project, much of the methodological literature that you read to figure out what to do may not be included as it ends up irrelevant.  If you are fortunate to settle quickly on an approach this can save you much time!!!

Assignments Go to Assignments in the Course Links navigation menu and select Project 4 by the end of week #11. Submit as directed.
 
Online Forum Discussion Select Forums from the Course Links navigation menu