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Course: GD
Name: Liam HuangLei
Tutor: Tim Flanders
Date: 5-30-2014

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Northern Consortium Graduate Diploma

TEXT 1:
Selection: First of all, this article from a handbook was downloaded from an academic website named Commonwealth of Learning (COL). This organization collaborates with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which aims to encourage people and academic institutions to share education sources. The handbook, Research and Evaluation Skills Training - Mixed research methods, was published by COL that it will help readers understand the knowledge about mixed research methods and help readers to promote their research and evaluation skills.
The reason why I selected and read this text is that it is intensively linked to my Chapter 3 Methodology of my dissertation. I need to use the information about mixed research methods to evaluate and analyze functions of different research methods.
As mentioned before this text is a handbook published by the COL, the three authors are all experts in their research field. Rob Walker is a agent of UNESCO who currently work on a project in India. Christine Spratt is a tutor of an ungraduated project. Bernadette Robinson is now joining a research project in China. She spreads western research method to Chinese cooperators. Generally, the text is academic and reliable that will help me to understand the process of research method and help me to make a reasonable survey plan. The concepts and detail information of the mixed research methods is fitting my research objective and it is apparently relevant to one chapter in the dissertation.
Summary:
The mixed research methods were introduced separately in four units in this handbook. The authors write this text in accordance to the process that they describe the definition of a concept, and then they introduce the function of different

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