Good data is not enough to make high-impact research. It needs a story that will pass the test of even the most stringent peer review. We are Mars Publications, a gap between complicated qualitative investigation and exalted publication.
We give strategic consultancy to the researchers who desire to go beyond the simple descriptions. Your methodology will not leak, and your presentation will be perfect. It is with our specialised Scientific and Technical Editing that we will change these raw qualitative findings into authoritative academic contributions that are respected in your field.
There is a trap which many researchers commit. They consider qualitative research to only involve interviewing. Interviews are very personal and rich in information but putting your study solely on interviews exposes you. When qualitative work has no greater foundation, the term is frequently derided by critics as subjective or anecdotal.
It is necessary to combat this perception by adopting rigour. Triangulation is equivalent to rigour in the qualitative world. Triangulation is a strategic act of employing more than one source, technique, or observer in cross-checking your findings. It is a kind of built-in research fact-checker. It transforms your work into an authenticated scientific finding.
The importance of Rigor in Qualitative Inquiry
In quantitative study, you depend on p-values and statistical significance. In qualitative research, you are left to trust. The readers should have a feeling that your findings are an actual phenomenon in the world and not your own prejudice. This trust is developed through triangulation. It is such that your conclusion remains the same even when you look at it through other prisms. You use several facts to prove one statement, which is a defense against doubting.
Triangulation methodology
The most prevalent type of triangulation is the one in which more than one method is used to investigate the same topic. When you interview alone, you will only get what people tell you they are doing. Human memory is not perfect and individuals tend to show the best side of them.
Direct observation can be added to your plan in order to make it more rigorous. Observe the behavior of the participants in nature. Document analysis may also be added. Check emails, reports or past archives to view the official account of events. Your findings are impossible to deny when your interview information correlates with what you see with your own eyes and what is written in the documents. You demonstrate to the reader that the truth lies in various forms of human interaction.
Triangulation of Data Sources: Change of Context
Triangulation of data sources entails obtaining information on more than one occasion, at another place or by other individuals. This makes you not to conclude on one or a special event.
First, we can refer to the aspect of time. Are there any changes in the phenomenon during the morning and night? Is there a change of workplace culture between a busy and a slow season? Second, look at space. In New York, a corporate culture may vary quite greatly as compared to a London branch. Third, have diversity in your participants. A top-down view is obtained by simply talking to managers. You should also hold interviews with subordinates, clients and even competitors so as to have the complete picture. With variations of these factors, you will establish that what you have found is not a one time event but a trend.
Triangulation of Investigators: The Strength of Two or more Viewpoints
Research can be somewhat a secluded experience, whilst it must not be a lonesome experience. Triangulation of the investigator involves the involvement of more than one researcher in data collection and analysis. This process is a direct opposite of individual bias.
When the same transcript is coded by two different researchers and they come up with a similar conclusion based on the theme discussed then the reliability of the study shoots up. It reduces the blind spots that an individual researcher almost automatically has. Different individuals pick up on variances. We serve as those second pair of eyes at Mars Publications, we give you the objective view that you focus your analysis and to make your reasoning bearable to examination.
Theory Triangulation: Testing the Various Lenses.
Theory triangulation is the consideration of your data across various theoretical perspectives. This introduces a level of sophistication, which leads to journals that are of the highest level.
Consider a case where you are researching employee turnover. You can interpret your information in a psychological perspective, which is the personal stress. The same data is then analyzed using a sociological perspective which concentrates on the power structures in an organization. When both theories have been able to explain the data in a successful manner, then you have a far richer and more detailed conclusion. This will prove that your results are strong enough to support different intellectual views.
Scientific and Technical Editing: The Final Step
The best triangulation strategy in the world can be written, but if you are unable to convey that rigor, rejection of your work can still occur. It takes the most linguistic precision to describe the intersection of three different data sources. This is one of the areas that most researchers fail. They possess the facts, but the story seems disorderly or disjointed.
This is the reason why qualitative researchers need to have knowledge of Scientific and Technical Editing. A technical editor does not only correct grammar. They provide a logical consistency of your whole manuscript. They do not leave without examining whether you have evidence to back up what you say.
The Specialization of our Scientific and Technical Editing team is upon the “why” and the how of your study. We assist you in expressing yourself on how exactly you employed triangulation to avoid biasness. We make sure that your methodological section is clear enough that other people can repeat. You polish up your language, and you transform a mass of knowledge into a scientific treatise. Such clarity is what makes a difference between any ordinary paper and a high-impact publication.
Develop Your Reputation on Rigor
The way to a prestigious publication is covered with evidence. You save your work by avoiding the criticism of mere interviews and adopting the benefits of triangulation. You demonstrate to the academic community that your results are rooted in a multi-layered reality which is highly complex.
Intense research is not something that takes place but rather planned. Mars Publications is there to help you in that process. We make sure that your research is respected just as it should be, whether it is in the first draft of your triangulation strategy or the last stage of your research, which is the Scientific and Technical Editing of your manuscript. We assist you in making your work known with the self-confidence that real rigor alone can give.