One of the more important questions you will need to ask and answer for yourself as you develop your research study is: Which qualitative research approach best fits my research question? You may be able to reframe your research question to fit more than one qualitative approach; generally, though, one of the available approaches is likely to fit better than the others once you have a well-defined question. The only way to make this determination is to develop a familiarity with different approaches.
In this Discussion, you will conduct a literature review of your topic area, focusing your choice on a research study that uses one of the qualitative approaches covered this week.
- Looking for a particular kind of qualitative article on your topic may be more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. Do not hesitate to broaden your search to incorporate related phenomena or different target groups in order to find a study.
- Go to the Walden Library for tips and strategies for efficient searching.
- Make sure you get the complete citation of the article, as well as the .pdf, because your Instructor will want to review the article.
- Be aware that your posting will first require an extensive article analysis. What you post is a summary of your work, not the entire analysis. This is good practice for summarizing and evaluating research for your capstone.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- Review the reading materials about the different approaches in this weeks Learning Resources.
- Conduct your own literature search to find a published study that represents one of the approaches.
- Review the following resources before proceeding with your own article review:
ASSIGNMENT
my research question is ( What are the factors related to African American males being targets of police brutality at disproportionate rates? )
Contribute 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.
Required Readings
Patton, M. Q. (2015). Qualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Chapter 3, Variety of Qualitative Inquiry Frameworks: Paradigmatic, Philosophical, and Theoretical Orientations (pp. 85168)
Chapter 4, Practical and Actionable Qualitative Applications (pp. 169242)
Basic Qualitative Research
Qualitative Case Study
Grounded Theory
Heuristic Inquiry
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