Write the title of the paper you would like to use in answering this assignment:
• Answer the following questions:
Section 1:
a) What is the philosophical position used in this article? (2 marks)
b) Why do you think the researcher/s adopted this philosophical position? Make sure
you discuss the ontological and epistemological stances in your answer. (4 marks)
c) What is the methodology used in this article? Include all specific details about
methodology in your answer (2 marks)
d) Why do you think the researcher/s adopted this philosophical position ? Make sure you
discuss the suitability of this methodology for the research aim/s. (4 marks)
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e) What is the data collection method used in this article? (2 marks)
suitability of the collection method for the research aim/s. (2 marks)
g) How suitable is the sample of this study to achieve the aim/s? Justify your answer
(2 marks)
After answering questions a to g, move to section 2.
Section 2:
Based on your reading and answers in section 1, propose a new aim for the study so it
would have an opposing philosophy and methodology.
a) Change the article objective so it would have an opposing philosophy and
methodology. For example, if you had a quantitative article, then change the
objective to be qualitative. (2 marks)
b) Why do you think the objective you wrote has an opposing philosophical position
and methodology to the original one? (5 marks)
c) What design would you choose to achieve the new proposed objective? And why?
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(5 marks)
d) What data collection method would you choose to achieve the new proposed
Objective? Justify your answer? (5 marks)
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e) What should be the characteristics of the new study sample? Justify your answer and
provide all the required details?
(5 marks)
