Using Discursive Reflexivity to Enhance the Qualitative Research Process: An Example from Accounts of Teenage Conception

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-129

  Cooper, Neil ^a   Burnett, Sylvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discursive reflexivity; quality in qualitative research; research interview

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248608204     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325006061541     Document Type: Article

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