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The language of research (part 20): understanding the quality of a qualitative paper (2)

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The language of research (part 20): understanding the quality of a qualitative paper (2)

Peter Ellis
12 March 2019

In the previous paper in this series, we looked at some of the ways in which the quality of a qualitative paper can be assessed; namely the trustworthiness, credibility, dependability, rigour, confirmability and authenticity of the research (Ellis, 2018a). We identified what these terms mean and that the sorts of rules which apply to the assessment of the quality of quantitative research, do not apply to qualitative studies: they employ very different approaches (methodologies and methods) and seek to explore very different questions. This paper examines how we can assess the quality of qualitative research, looking at some of the strategies researchers might use to demonstrate to readers that that what they have undertaken is of good quality.

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