Identifying the Inquiry and Stating the Problem

• Research Topic - Area of study, common ground
• Reconnaissance is the process of reviewing literature
• Research Capsule - It summarizes research details and attributes for planning a research study
• The research capsule is the blueprint of a research project
• Types of Literature Sources: Research, Conceptual, Gray
• Research - from journals
• Research - 1st priority
• Conceptual - from books
• Conceptual - 2nd priority
• Gray - from other sources
• Gray - not priority
• ISBN - International Standard Book Number
• DOI - Direct Object Identifier
• ISBN - Internationally regulated system of identifying books by number
• ISBN - publishers purchase a bunch of it one at a time and then assign them to publications.
• DOI - help identify specific journal articles
• DOI - frequently used for scientific articles.
• PMID - PubMed IDs
• PMID - strings of numbers that identify records in PubMed database
• Biography - If I could discover the meaning of one person's lived experience, I would ask ________ (individual) about
• Phenomenology - If I could discover the shared lived experiences of one quality or phenomenon in others, I want to know about _______
• Ethnography - If I could experience a different culture by living/observing it, I would choose to experience ______
• Case Study - If I could discover what actually occurred and was experienced in a single lived event, that event would be _______
• Grounded Theory - If I could discover a theory for a single phenomenon of living as shared by others, I would choose to discover the theory of _______
• Five-question method in framing a qualitative research study - Biography, Phenomenology, Ethnography, Case Study, Grounded Theory
• Introduction - stating the problem begins with identifying the topic, reviewing the literature and deciding on the qualitative research design
• Introduction: qualitative inquiry involves a single ‘central question’ about a person’s experience.
• Research topic - focus on life-related concepts that are non-measurable, and entails narration of past experiences
• Intellectualized Topic - specific to study
• Reconnaissance - Familiarity in the body of literature on a topic will help you identify how your proposed study will fit into the body of literature available
• Intellectualized Topic - distinctiveness of your research