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Making corrections to my research proposal, I came across a hurdle. Although I provided information about population and sampling, I did not fully comprehend the various types of sampling designs.   Reading various books and articles proved futile, as I could not decide on a sample design. Discussing my woes with a lecturer, she advised me that since I'm doing mixed method research, I should have different sampling designs and not just one.  Talking about my proposal and discussing issues, helped to pacify some of my woes. I hope that this blog will be a means to support fellow "researchers" and that the more experienced researchers will share their advise and guide as along. I found the following two books the easiest to understand: Title: Practical research : planning and design By: Paul D. Leedy and Jeanne Ellis Ormrod. Edition: 10th Year: 2013 ISBN: 9780132899505   Title: Essentials of nursing research: Appraising evidence for n

           Keynote speaker at CPUT's Teaching and Learning with Technology Day 2013,  Noelle Cowling,  provided an overview of current and emerging technologies applied by scholars in the research field. Emphasis was placed on the researchers’ online identity and the aptitude to effectively advance the research and the resulting impact of the research.  View her screencast on Open research and the digital scholar     Below are some tools that can be utilized to create a professional online identity      Twitter:-An online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters.    Academia.edu : A social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field.           SlideShare: A Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file form

ORCID provides a constant digital identifier that differentiates you from every other researcher.  It integrates research workflows and supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities, ensuring that your work is recognized.

At the Teaching and learning with technology day @ CPUT Daniela Gachago 's slam session introduced us to Referencing with Mendeley - a free reference manager and academic social network  Some features Creates bibliographies Collaborate with researchers Online Import papers easily Search papers Access anywhere online

Teaching and learning with technology day @ CPUT provided many tools to help with research.  A slam session by  Andy  Bytheway , FID, introduced us to an analyser to assist in managing and categorisng textual research data.  Some features of the "Starter" version: Works with various projects and data Deals with the content of documents, other sources not just interviews Create own labels for the metadata  All session are recorded enabling work with multiple data sets Easy to navigate between chunking, coding and browsing Auto chunking and auto copy features Index all words Spell checking  Charts available  The full package is available for download

Dr. E. Van Wijk's & T. Harrison's article in International Journal of Qualitative Methods October edition. Managing Ethical Problems in Qualitative Research Involving Vulnerable Populations: Using a Pilot Study Evalina van Wijk, Tracie Harrison Abstract The purpose of the researcher’s study was to examine the meaning that intimate partners of female rape victims attached to their lived experiences after the rape. The conduct of qualitative research concerning non-offending partners of female rape victims, however, often involves multifaceted ethical and practical challenges, which can be managed through the use of pilot studies. The pilot study described in this report had three objectives. The first was to pretest and refine the proposed method for locating, accessing and recruiting intimate partners of female rape victims, within the first two weeks after the rape, for participation in a six-month longitudinal study. The second objective was to identify and prevent