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As you develop a framework from your review of the empirical and conceptual literature, think about how you can connect your personal goals for a dissertation study with the research goals of qualitative inquiry. After reflecting on your personal goals for undertaking an original investigation and completing a dissertation study as part of your doctoral studies, you can link them to a developing dissertation research plan. A useful approach to use when assessing how personal and research goals align involves using the formula for a research purpose and inserting the general language of qualitative research into the formula (Creswell, 2014). Here, you can experiment with your current or evolving research purpose by formulating the terms as follows: phenomenon + group + setting or site. Using Michel’s (2014) example above, the formula would look something like this:

social preparedness and familial support (phenomenon) + Latino college students (group) + high school to university (setting/site)

After building a formula, work on adding terms that move the study onto the spectrum of qualitative research and focus the work on exploring the experiences of a group or the relationship between a set of experiences and outcomes for a group. Extending Michel’s (2014) example, we can see the following purpose take shape: “The purpose of this study is to explore the social preparedness and familial support experiences of first-year, first-generation, low-income Latino college students during their transition from an urban charter high school to regional urban public universities in Southern California.” In this example, the bolded terms connect Michel’s goals for her study with the goals of qualitative research, binding her purpose with what the broader community of researchers expects to see in projects that adopt such approaches.