The main elements in qualitative research are:
- using natural setting as the source
- researcher acts as the "human instrument"
- researchers predominantly use inductive data analysis
- the reports are descriptive, have expressive language
-research has an interpretive character
- researchers pay attention to the idiosyncratic as well as the pervasive
- researchers focus on an emerging process
- research uses special criteria for trustworthiness
When it comes to qualitative research, there is more focus on the quality of what is written then how much. Using more time on this type of research, it is more difficult to generalize it. They aim to investigate why and how including what, where and when. Researchers observe, describe and interpret the findings they have. Group discussions, field notes and other materials are ways they collect the data. They categorizes this data. The researchers are the data gathering instruments.
When writing a paper, they explain in details and use an expressive language. They are trying to find what is special with each case.
Another important element is how trustworthy the findings and researchers are.
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