CHAPTER 6 HOW TO WRITE PUBLISHABLE QUALITATIVE …

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PUBLISHING ADDICTION SCIENCE: A guide FOR THE PERPLEXED82INTRODUCTIONConducting and publishing QUALITATIVE research requires the same principal skills asquantitative research. In addition, there may be special challenges for the qualitativeresearcher. She may have to overcome prejudice and communication barriers withinthe scientific community. This CHAPTER provides advice to authors who wish to publishtheir research in a scientific journal. The CHAPTER starts with some remarks on specialcharacteristics of the processes of QUALITATIVE study that can have an impact on thereporting of the results.

84 PUBLISHING ADDICTION SCIENCE: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED The first and foremost aim of all social research, quantitative as well as qualitative, is to present a conceptually adequate description of a historically specifictopic, subject or target.

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