Dissertation Research Methods

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Dissertation Research Methods
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The structure of your dissertation depends on
your approach to researching the topic. This post
discusses different ways you can take to research
information for your work.
The term Approach does not mean just the type
of data you are going to use for dissertation but
also orientation of your study and arguments that
you are going to apply.
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Selecting research methodology for any kind of
dissertation depends on your own knowledge and
research abilities.
The first thing to remember is that it is
necessary to provide the reason why you included
this particular information.
Your topic provides you with selection of
possible methodologies on order to stay within
limits.
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QUALITATIVE OR QUANTITATIVE WHICH TO CHOOSE?

• Lets use the following example of using both
  approaches. Quantitative information is
  appropriate when you want to find out about
  popularity of illegal drug use within particular
  age group.

Qualitative approach is the best when you want to
investigate reasons for this group to engage in
this kind of behavior.
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QUALITATIVE OR QUANTITATIVE WHICH TO CHOOSE?

• You have already done many research papers. Take
  time to think about research methodologies that
  you have used in your previous works. Ask your
  peers about their as well.

Remember that you will have to provide
justification for your research methods so you
have to be comfortable with it in order to able
to explain your reason.
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YOUR CHOICE OF METHODS DEPENDS ON THE FOLLOWING

• Personal preferences to approaches (realist and
  so on).
• Own abilities to collect and analyze
  information required
• Choice of topic that interests the student
• Way of establishing research Problem.

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CAN THESE METHODS BE COMBINED IN ONE DISSERTATION
PAPER?

• It is allowed to combine these two methods. Lets
  review an example. Your research question
  requires using quantitative data as you want to
  examine implications of a policy.

On the other hand, you want to include a human
touch. This means providing interviews of people
which have experienced the policy to describe its
effect on certain individual form different age
group.
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IN THIS CASE IT IS ALLOWED TO USE COMBINATION OF
THESE METHODS.
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