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Tell me a story, tell
me a story
Tell me a story before I go to bed;
You promised me, you said you would,
You gotta give in ‘cause I’ve been good,
Tell me a story before I go to bed.
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narrative or a story (and these terms are synonyms) is a fundamental way
of understanding our environment and relationships in it and thus it is a
key feature of sound research whatever methodological approach has been
taken. The skills of story telling are important in both qualitative or
interpretive and quantitative research. But it comes into its own in
qualitative research where story telling especially as it appears in case
studies and action research is of prime importance. In quantitative
research a story or narrative is also required to contextualize the work.
The argument developed in this paper balances the idea that numerical
analysis underpins the most powerful research paradigms.
Keywords and phrases:
Story telling, narrative, qualitative research, quantitative research,
rhetoric, argument
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