Practicing Phenomenological Writing

Analysing phenomenological data and writing up

To manage these tensions researchers need to engage in reflective and reflexive analysis (Finlay, 2003) moving back and forth in a kind of dialectic between experience and awareness; between studying the parts and the whole. As researchers, we need to strive, explicitly, to understand some of the connections by which subject and object influence and constitute each other. We need to acknowledge...

The Comparative Effect of Practicing Cooperative Learning and Critical Thinking on EFL Learners’ Writing

the comparative effect of practicing cooperative learning and critical thinking on efl learners’ writing

Research as transition instrument: A phenomenological investigation of future image in Ph.D. thesis writing

This research has been done to investigate Shiraz university doctoral students’ perspectives on thesis writing. Required data has been gathered by using deep interviews with eight doctoral students. Based on an abductive research strategy and using interpretative phenomenology, the research findings show a Ph.D. thesis doesn’t have a place in the big picture of their life. Themes abstracted fro...

Blog-Assisted Learning in the ESL Writing Classroom: A Phenomenological Analysis

This study explores the experiences of a group of Taiwanese ESL student writers on a course of study that used a blog-assisted language learning (BALL) methodology. Data from in-depth interviews with eight participants were studied qualitatively using a phenomenological method of analysis. Participants’ blogging activities were found to be inhibited by low L2 proficiency levels, by feelings of ...