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Creswell (1998) defines qualitative research as "an inquiry process of understanding based on a distinct methodology tradition of inquiry that explore a social or human problem. The researcher builds a complex holistic picture, analyzes words, reports detailed views of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting". According to Denzin and Lincoln, the purpose of qualitative research is to "study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them". Creswell (1998) suggests that qualitative inquiry may also be defined by comparing it to quantitative inquiry, citing Ragin (1997) who characterised a key difference in that quantitative researchers work with a few variables and many cases, whereas qualitative researchers rely on a few cases and many variables. In qualitative inquiry several distinct traditions, or methodologies, exist. This assignment sets out to examine a published paper with a basis in...

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