Discussion: Literature Search, Part I

One of the more important questions you will
need to ask and answer for yourself as you develop your research study
is: “Which qualitative research approach best fits my research
question?” You may be able to reframe your research question to fit more
than one qualitative approach; generally, though, one of the available
approaches is likely to fit better than the others once you have a
well-defined question. The only way to make this determination is to
develop a familiarity with different approaches.

In this Discussion, you will conduct a
literature review of your topic area, focusing your choice on a research
study that uses one of the qualitative approaches covered this week.

• Looking for a particular kind of qualitative article on your topic
  may be more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. Do not
  hesitate to broaden your search to incorporate related phenomena or
  different target groups in order to find a study.
• Go to the Walden Library for tips and strategies for efficient searching.
• Make sure you get the complete citation of the article, as well as
  the .pdf, because your Instructor will want to review the article.
• Be aware that your posting will first require an extensive article
  analysis. What you post is a summary of your work, not the entire
  analysis. This is good practice for summarizing and evaluating research
  for your capstone.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the reading materials about the different approaches in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Conduct your own literature search to find a published study that represents one of the approaches.
• Review the following resources before proceeding with your own article review:

Document: R8360 Guidelines for Reading and Evaluating Qualitative Research Articles (PDF)

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Document: Example of How to Read and Evaluate a Qualitative Research Article (PDF)

By Day 3

Contribute a 3-paragraph Discussion post in which you respond to the following:

• Summarize the characteristics of the approach of the research article you chose during your literature search.
• Summarize the research article, including the citation and
  sufficient information for your classmates and Instructor to locate the
  article.
• Present a short critique of that article based on the “R8360
  Guidelines for Reading and Evaluating Qualitative Research Articles”
  document.