Qualitative Inquiry.

1. QI it is not scientific

When people do a research project they follow a plan, an order, they have to follow a path for doing a good work. Despite the quantitative research is important, the linchpin of the QI is demanding special attention in rigour, precision and details, it entails that, they as researchers of this inquiry take awareness to inform as suitable as possible in the final part of the research to get a reliable study. Is important to devote time and isolate fiction with reality because all study pretends to describe and explore problematic moments in the society using diverse methods like interviews, observations and so on. They are not scientifics but they try to do as well as possible looking for solutions indeed. QI is not to make experiments but wheter to explore complexities in the social world that we have.

1. Depending on the context the QI demands different methods

Doing a research study implies to explore the context before. That means that is it really necessary to read all particular characteristics people have there. If for someone researcher is suitable to use the Ethnography (as an approach) in his study, that would be not the best in other case to another researcher. All situations in the world are different, all communities are different, so the researcher has to do a conscious pre-study in order to know what approach has to implement. However, Richards (2003) mentions that: “If you can support […] reading key journals and attending conferences where key researches are speaking, so much better”, it means that you as a researcher should explore before for doing your studies, also it is good to follow that advice and wait the research itself begins.

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