Criteria for Evidence in Qualitative Research.

Fitch, Kristine L.

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ERIC Number: EJ481126

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Publication Date: 1994

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Criteria for Evidence in Qualitative Research.

Fitch, Kristine L.

Western Journal of Communication, v58 n1 p32-38 Win 1994

Discusses (in a special issue on the topic of criteria for the admissibility of evidence) the contributions and limitations of conversation analysis and postmodernism toward the enterprise of ethnographic research. Proposes criteria for qualitative data to be admissible as evidence for claims about social life and for a qualitative study to count as evidence. (SR)

Descriptors: Communication Research, Ethnography, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Researcher Subject Relationship, Researchers, Theory Practice Relationship

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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