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The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
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Chapter 9
Conducting Research for a Case Study
Article outline
A.
Examining the case study
1.
Defining the case study assignment
Description of the case study assignment
2.
The building blocks of the case study
3.
Conducting research for a case study
a.
Select the subject/participants
John’s research subject
Informed consent
b.
Define the research question
Understanding research questions
John’s research question
Strategies for writing effective research questions for a case study
Practice: Identifying the elements of an effective case study research question
c.
Identify primary data sources
Practice: Identifying primary sources in context
d.
Collect the data
Strategies for planning data collection
John’s data collection guide
Methods of data collection
Documents and archival records
Interviews
Observations
Documenting sources during data collection
e.
Analyze the data
Strategies for reviewing data
Observations
Photographs
Audio visual materials
Strategies for organizing the data
Coding the data
Creating a code index
John’s code index
A thematic data table
Constructing a thematic data table
Evaluating the potential of themes and data sources
John’s thematic data table
Strategies for evaluating the data
Triangulation
Evidence evaluation matrix
John’s evidence evaluation matrix
Practice: Data triangulation
f.
Create an outline for the case study
Two-column format
Spider map
John’s outline
Practice: Organizing data for the outline
B.
AWARE: Writing a case study
1.
Arranging to write a case study
a.
Choosing the subject for the case study
Practice: Generating ideas for a subject of the study
Practice: Focused free writing
b.
Formulating a research question
Practice: Generating ideas for a research question
c.
Planning to collect primary data
Existing sources
Data you will collect
d.
Analyzing the data
e.
Organizing the data
Practice: Record your themes and codes in a code index
Organize your coded data in a thematic table
Evaluate the data
(a) Triangulation
(b) Evidence evaluation matrix
Practice: Create an evidence evaluation matrix
Prepare to outline the case study