Just What is Qualitative Research? One Practitioner's Experience
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
- Vol. 88 (1) , 43-52
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x9408800107
Abstract
This article explores two issues involved in conducting qualitative research: 1) the essentials of data collection and 2) the unique role of the researcher in the data collection process.Keywords
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