Dear Chris: I tend to use "research strategy" in order to stress the
ongoing and dynamic element, whereas "design' suggests that we do it
once and then follow it to the "end" which, of course , never does
arrive.Good luck, j.David Singer
> I am finishing up my syllabus for an "intro to research" grad course,
> and I continue my struggle for a better term for the aspect of
> research
> that we usually call "research design." By this, I mean that class of
> choices/techniques that include panel study, case study,
> cross-sectional, time-series, etc., designs. I don't like to use
> "research design" because I argue that all choices in planning a
> research project are about its design (including measurement,
> sampling,
> etc. choices, and even choices about stating the research
> question). In
> the past few years, I have been using the phrase "observational plan,"
> but I don't really like that much either. Any suggestions?
>
> Chris
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