Completing Your Qualitative DissertationBloomberg, L. D., & Volpe, M. (2019). Completing your qualitative dissertation: A road map from beginning to end (4th ed.). SAGE.
This text offers comprehensive guidance and practical tools for navigating each step in the qualitative dissertation process, including the planning, research, and writing phases. Blending the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, the book becomes a dissertation in action—an explanation and illustration of both content and process. There is also a companion website at (https://edge.sagepub.com/bloomberg-qualitative-5e).
Read Chapter 6 (“Introduction to Your Study”). This chapter explains how to develop a purpose statement that addresses the research problem, and then how to identify the research questions that are tied to the purpose.
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