Thursday, October 21, 2010
qualitative research concerns
I can't lie, I am more worried about this paper than the rest that we have had so far. I am worried about writing open-ended questions. It was hard enough to do in class with two friends about a simple movie and now I am going to have to do it by myself and incorporate those questions into my paper about a story of my own choice. This scares me! Open-ended questions are not easy to write or to answer in my opinion. I feel it may be hard to stay away from quantitative methods because they are simple and truly easier than qualitative methods. It is much easier to report numbers and simple data and facts than to have to report feelings and thoughts and answers to difficult questions. On the other hand, conducting qualitative research is a very eye opening experience and will show people like me how other people feel about a story being changed from one medium to another. I will also be conducting this qualitative research in many different ways like conducting interviews, observing and reading data. This is will give me a much more broad perspective of the data and what people think about the story I am conducting research on. Qualitative research goes in much more depth than quantitative research does. It shows the thought processes of the people being interviewed, how they feel and what they think when all that quantitative research shows are statistics, numbers, and data that must be interpreted to be understood. I expect to encounter many challenges and obstacles when writing this paper as I anticipate it to be very work intensive and probably give me a few headaches. I expect to be stuck deciding which story to pick to conduct my research on. There are tons of stories that have been converted from one medium to another and I am very indecisive, which is not a good combination at all. Also, coming up with open-ended questions is very difficult for me, I even had trouble in class with it when I had friends to help me come up with some questions. I expect that conducting the research itself is going to a pain in the butt! There is so much that goes into this paper that I know I must be very organized with all of my information and even my thoughts. Writing is difficult for me, and organizing the information in my paper I know will be very difficult for me, to figure out what goes where. I know that once this research paper is done and over with I will be proud of myself because it is going to be a lot of work but I also know that because it is a lot of work I am going to want to procrastinate a ton just to put all of the work off. I am going to work very hard, however, to not procrastinate. This is a paper that can't be put together in two days and will take a lot of time to conduct the research, put it all in its place and write the paper with sophistication and style. I am going to have to put everything aside for a little while and focus purely on this paper because to me, it is a big deal since it proposes so many challenges.
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