Topic > Essay on Types of Qualitative Research - 713

Week SixCreswell's (2013) chapters four and five helped me understand how important it is to focus on one type of qualitative research. This leads to writing a coherent article in the chosen approach. It was also interesting to learn that, due to subjective and objective experiences, phenomenology lies halfway between qualitative and quantitative research. The study I am conducting is a phenomenological study. So when I interviewed my participant this weekend, I couldn't help but be a little worried that I wasn't staying true to the phenomenological approach. My participant had difficulty being sequential and organized in his interview. Sometimes I had to ask clarifying questions instead of remaining silent as I should have. Therefore, when I read page eighty-one, I am a little confused to tell the participants the two broad, general questions that were asked during the reading. Can we ask these questions during the interview or are these the questions you asked us to ask in separate interviews? The reason I ask is because even though these two questions seem b...