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Workbook - The study of documents

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• Contents
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• Short-answer questions
• Fill-in questions
• True/false questions
• Multiple-choice questions
• Practical exercises

Educational objectives

After completing this chapter, you will:

1. be familiar with the nature, types and purpose of the study of documents in social research;
2. have an understanding of the diversity of the study of documents and their place in quantitative and qualitative social research;
3. have gained an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of document studies, content analysis and text analysis;
4. have developed the competence to conduct research containing methods of text analysis;
5 be aware of the ethical issues involved in research employing studies of documents.