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Judging Poetic Inquiry

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Qualitative research has taken different turns over the years which has meant a need for a greater understanding of how one might judge new and emerging forms of qualitative research. Instead of taking a criteriology approach, this chapter argues, along with others, that a list of characterising traits (characterising an artful science) needs to be available to reviewers when judging qualitative research.

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Owton, H. (2017). Judging Poetic Inquiry. In: Doing Poetic Inquiry. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64577-3_7

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