RES300 – Case Study Information – 14/05/08
In class last week, I was unsure as to what a case study was (as this might be what my project is termed under), so to refresh my memory I did a search on google and found an interesting Website. The article on the Website was called “How to Write a Case Study?, the first paragraphy reminded me, what a case study is all about:
“Case studies can be used in any academic discipline. The purpose of a case study is to provide a more thorough analysis of a situation or “case” which might reveal interesting information about that classification of things. For the business student, a case study could be done on a particular company; for the political science student a case study might concern a particular country or government/administration. Case studies could be written about individuals, such as how kids learn to read, for example, about organizations and their management practices, or the results of applying a computer science program or process to a problem. You might be trying to figure out how to solve the problem of illiteracy or environmental degradation. The sky is the limit. The key is to take your large problem and bring it down to the level of the individual or single unit.”
The Website where this information was from: ‘http://www.essayforum.com/10_366_0.html’
Also another interesting document was: “How to Write a Case Study” from: ‘http://www.gttp.org/docs/HowToWriteAGoodCase.pdf’
Cheers,
Herb
Clare said,
May 20, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Good. One of the important things with case studies is to know what information you want from them – otherwise any interviews can get very unfocused very quickly! So its always important to know what you want answers to before you organise the case study.
So are you thinking of doing a case study of one or more companies or are you thinking of doing a survey of as many companies as you can?