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reflect and share what you have learned mentally apply new concepts to your work situation actively seeking specific real-life situations that
develop virtual communication skills conveying ideas virtually can be very different than face-to-face where we use our bodies as well as our
formatthere are a number of technical rules and conventions that you must follow in formatting the final layout of the text these are as followsuml
stylethere are a number of points of good practice in the presentation of effective written communications that are relevant to the style of your
final dissertationbefore writing the dissertation take some time to plan its overall structure draft the executive summary to get an overview you can
quantitative data may be presented either as full statements of the results obtained or in summary form it is likely that the full results would be
analysis of quantitative dataif a survey has been well prepared and piloted and successfully carried out then the data analysis should be relatively
codingthe purpose of coding is to assist with the analysis of responses to a survey by enabling the researcher to organise and quantify the data
the scalometer the top five spaces are in one colour and are marked -- the bottom five spaces are in a different colour and are
attitude measurementderiving accurate measurements of the strength of attitudes or opinions or beliefs from quantitative data is not straightforward
general parametersthere are no hard and fast rules about how a questionnaire should be constructed and to some extent you will be guided by the topic
types of questionit is important to distinguish between the different types of questions that can be used in a questionnaire there are a number of
questionnaire designdata is normally collected in a survey by use of a questionnaire careful attention is necessary in the preparation of the
methods of administering a surveya survey may be administered through a face-to-face interview by post or by telephone generally if given to
stratified samplingin this method the population is divided into strata such as social classes or occupational groups and a sample is randomly
random samplingin this case a sample of people is selected at random meaning that every section of the population has an equal chance of being
sampling methodsit is not always feasible or necessary to contact everyone in a population instead a sample can be used from which to generalise to
role of surveysa survey aims to obtain standardised quantifiable information from or sometimes about a defined group of people known as a population
the purpose of a survey is to obtain standardised quantifiable information from a defined group of people usually through use of a questionnaire
analysis of qualitative dataalthough analysis usually takes place after data collection has been completed in a case study you should start your
triangulationas you will have realised there are a large number of individual methods of data collection that can be used for a case study each have
archival - documentary methodswe have already mentioned documents earlier in our discussion of secondary sources of data some documents may be in the
diary methodsin this type of research the subjects of the case study are asked to keep a diary or record to which the researcher has access either
focus groupsthe focus group is a particular type of group interview with a small number of participants usually between five and ten people brought
almost all qualitative research includes interviews in some form unlike observation the technique of interviewing is to ask specific questions of the