Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Traditions

Description

This book explores the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of five qualitative inquiry traditions: biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study. John W Creswell relates research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry and compares each of the research strategies for theoretical frameworks, writing introduction to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing the narrative, and employing standards of quality and verifying results. Five journal articles in the appendix offer fascinating reading as well as examples of the five different qualitative designs.

About the Author
John W. Creswell is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Teachers College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is affiliated with a graduate program in educational psychology that specializes in quantitative and qualitative methods in education. In this program, he specializes in qualitative and quantitative research designs and methods, multimethod research, and faculty and academic leadership issues in colleges and universities.

Literary Research and the Era of American Nationalism and Romanticism: Strategies and Sources (Literary Research: Strategies and Sources)

Description
This book recommends best practices for research in the lively and vibrant literature of the American Early Republic. Covering all formats, the volume discusses bibliographies, indexes, research guides, archives and special collections, microform and digital primary text resources, and how they are best exploited for a literary research project.

AN INTRINSIC ANALYSIS OF ANNE BRONTË’S AGNES GREY AND ITS MORAL VALUES

BY
BETARIA S.
02004052

ABSTRACT

In this study the writer discusses the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. In this study the writer try to analyze an intrinsic and the moral value from the novel Agnes Grey. The writer chooses the novel Agnes Grey because of several reasons such as: First, this novel is one of the best English novel and it is so interesting to analyze. Second this novel talks about a young woman who never give up in facing her life, Agnes Grey is a patience, dilligent, and have a dream to change her family life. And the last the reader can adopt the moral values provided in the novel.

The writer uses the structural approach as a method to describe the intrinsic analysis of this novel. The method used in this thesis is librarian research. Because to get needed data and information, the writer have to employs and involves a library research method by reading industriously to get a deep comprehension about the intrinsic analysis of the literary work.

The writer comes to conclude that intrinsic elements are theme, the plot, setting and character and characterization The result of the research finding can be seen as follows; the synopsis of the novel. The theme of the novel is dramatic story, struggle woman, patience and happy ending story. There are two groups of character; those are major and minor characters. The major characters are Agnes grey, Agnes’s mother, Agnes’s father, Mary as Agnes’s sister, Mr. Richardson, Betty, Fanny and Harriet, Nancy Brown, Matilda Murray, Rosalie Murray, Mr. Edward Weston, Mrs. and Mrs. Murray, John Murray, Charles Murray, Mr. Thomas Ashby, and Mr. Hatfield. The minor characters are Mr and Mrs Bloomfield, Mary Ann, Master Tom Bloomfield and Mr. Robson. The setting of the novel is divided in two parts, namely place and time setting. The setting of place is located in North of England and setting of time is the beginning of 1839. The plot includes five sections; exposition, rising action, crisis, falling action and catastrophe. And the moral values itself can be divided into negative and positive moral values. Patience, devotion, freedom, friendship, forgiving, telling the truth, helping others, working hard; are positive moral values, and negatives such as injustice and lying other. From these moral values the reader can learn from the novel after reading it.

Art of Literary Research (Hardcover)

Contents

Preface to the fourth edition .

ONE : Vocation

TWO : The Spirit of scholarship.
1. Error : Its prevalence, progress and
persistence
2. Examining the evidence
3. Two Applications of the Critical spirit:
Fixing Dates, and Testing Authenticity

THREE : Some Scholarly Occupations
1. Textual Study
2. Problems of Authorship
3. The Search for origins
4. Tracing for Reputation and Influence
5. Cultivating a Sense of the Past

FOUR : Finding materials

FIVE : Libraries

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