Nonetheless, I completed the assignment. Following is perhaps one of the most unintentionally funny paragraphs you could read.
By using a phenonmenologic research tradition, the researcher hopes to develop an emic perspective—that is to get an insider perspective of the lived experiences of adolescents who have mothers deployed overseas. Using the researcher as the instrument for this study, the plan is to immerse the researcher into a local military community after-school program for adolescents, thereby gaining entrée into the group, prior to a unit being deployed. Once entrée is established, the researchers are hopeful that a grand tour question, the broad question that will provide a general overview of phenomenon to be studied, will be established based on casual discussions with the adolescents. Once established, the researchers will present the initial process consent to the participants per IRB protocol, with further process consents being presented as the study unfolds. As the study progresses, the researchers hope to remain open to the direction and meaning the study takes, maintaining an intuiting approach, until data saturation is achieved. As this is a phenomena that is under investigation, the researchers are convinced that the direction of the study will be based on emergent designs depending on what has already been learned. In order to avoid any preconceived ideas or beliefs (bracketing), the literature review will be done at the end of the study.
