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To carry out research, students choose the methodology that best answers their question. On the surface, it seems easy. However, books about methodology take up entire floors of libraries and there is a dizzying array of approaches and conflicting ways to describe them. Tradition, inquiry, genre, strategy, methodology, and method are just some of the terms authors use to describe the same activity.
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Blair, L. (2016). Choosing a Methodology. In: Writing a Graduate Thesis or Dissertation. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-426-8_6
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