What is qualitative research?

Qualitative Research Reports in Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-28

  Jackson, Ronald L ^a   Drummond, Darlene K ^b   Camara, Sakile ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Ethnography; Methodologies; Methods; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971411707     PISSN: 17459435     EISSN: 17459443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17459430701617879     Document Type: Article

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