Choosing research methodologies appropriate to your research focus
Bradley, J.R.
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Title
Choosing research methodologies appropriate to your research focus
Author(s)
Bradley, J.R.
Issue Date
1992
Keyword(s)
Library science --Research
Methodology
Date of Ingest
2007-04-15T19:29:03Z
Abstract
This paper considers the generic activities involved in research and some
issues that underlie whatever specific methodologies the investigator
selects. A general definition of research (or empirical inquiry as it is
generally termed in the paper), broad enough to encompass multiple
research traditions and methodologies, is developed: systematic
connection of observation of the empirical world with abstraction about
the empirical world in ways that consciously seek to identify and control
for bias and thus provide the most complete view that is relevant to
the purposes and focus of the inquiry. Five activities necessary in the
process of empirical inquiry are discussed: (a) finding a focus,
(b) describing the problem to be investigated, (c) selecting the
phenomena in the empirical world to observe, (d) observing the
phenomena, and (e) analyzing and interpreting the observations. Each
activity is described, major issues are considered, and, where appropriate,
alternative approaches represented by deductive and inductive research
traditions are presented.
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Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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