Response to Tracy's Under the "Big Tent": Establishing Universal Criteria for Evaluating Qualitative Research

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 689-695

  Gordon, Jenny ^a   Patterson, Jean A ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

credibility; criteria; ethics; rigor; trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884600135     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800413500934     Document Type: Article

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