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Seminar paper

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describe the planned/preferred research design for your PhD research and the methodological argument for choice of research design (100 points)

research design alternatives

Quantitative

methodological approaches

critical rationalism

Qualitative

mixed-methods

social constructionism

critical realism

actor-network-theory

pragmatism

? governmentality

assessment

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• substance

- consistency among proposed elements (‘methodological’ fit)

- focus of research design on methodologically relevant

aspects

- application and appropriate use of technical terminology

- quality scholarly literature

• structure and clarity - thoughts logically building on

each other

- understandable language and visualization

• formal criteria - length

- referencing and reference list