Data Collection

Research methods

The purpose of the research methods section is to establish the credibility of your results and to enable replication.

The pattern is:  I did this, because I wanted to achieve the following, as is suggested by this author. 

A good way of structuring your research is using the "Research onion" (Saunders, 2007) 

Here is how to use AI to analyze qualitative data

Here is Dr Debbie Adendorff's excellent summary table of her research, as well as a couple of videos about various data collection methods.

Techniques and Procedures

Approaches and Strategies