Making discursive space in psychology for qualitative report-writing

Qualitative Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-49

  Walsh, Richard T G ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

APA style; Publication Manual; qualitative research reports; rhetoric in science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963993765     PISSN: 23263601     EISSN: 23263598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/qup0000020     Document Type: Article

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