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Planning Your Qualitative Research Project Is A Key Text For Any Student Embarking On A Qualitative Research Project. It Provides Worked Examples And Valuable Models Which Can Be Used As Guides For Plans And Proposals, Answering Key Questions And Providing A Comprehensive Guide To Your Project.--book Jacket. An Overview Of The Research Process -- Introduction -- The General Background -- Posing The Question -- What Is Theory And What Is Its Value? -- An Example Of A 'perspectives' Study -- An Example Of A Study On How Participants 'deal With' A Particular Phenomenon -- Extending -- The Range Of Interpretivist Studies -- Policy Studies And The Interpretivist Paradigm -- Life History Studies -- Retrospective Interactionist Longitudinal Studies -- Interactionist Historical Studies -- The Interactionist Historical Studies -- The Interpretivist Paradigm And Research Based On 'problem-focused' Ideas. Tom O'donoghue. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [199]-216) And Index.