Presenting Methodology and Research Approach

12/26/2007 11:52 AM Page 65. CHAPTER 3. Presenting Methodology and Research Approach OVERVIEW You need to show the reader that you (a) have knowledge of the current issues and Chapter 3 of the dissertation presents the discourse, and (b) can relate your study to Research design and the specific procedures those issues and discourse. In this regard, you used in conducting your study. A Research need to explain how you have gone about design includes various interrelated elements designing and conducting your study while that reflect its sequential nature. This chapter making sure that you draw supporting evi- is intended to show the reader that you have dence from the literature for the decisions an understanding of the methodological and choices that you have made. implications of the choices you made and, in This chapter, which is usually one of the particular, that you have thought carefully dissertation's lengthiest, is essentially a dis- about the links between your study's purpose cussion, in which you explain the course and and Research questions and the Research logic of your decision making throughout the Approach and Research methods that you Research process.

• The type of information you needed • How you designed the study and the meth-ods that you used to gather your data • The theoretical basis of the data-collection methods you used and why you chose these • How you have analyzed and synthesized ... Methodology,, , ...

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