Non-discriminatory Treatment towards Qualitative Methodological Approach

This petition was published by Ian on Mar 17, 2010

Qualitative methods valorize depth and roundedness in the collection of empirical data. Since it does not aim for generalizability, the rigour of the data lies within the textual evidences collected through methods such as interviews, focus groups and archives.

In order to make a strong case for qualitative arguments, a large amount of texts are often quoted within the text body of the written report. As such, we find that ISMs and HTs dealing with qualitative inquiry are very much disadvantaged because of the recent word length reduction, from 15,000 to 12,000.

Therefore we seek permission to quote our empirical data, in the form of texts, in text boxes that can be named as figures/tables/plates. In addition, these texts would not be included in final word count in the produced written reports.

There should be a non-discriminatory treatment towards the nature of qualitative methods under this implementation of word length limit.

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