There are several key points in doing your research. To keep you on track the author has provided several checklists to help:

• The identification of a subject and an object for the study (see especially chapter 1), and finding your case (Chapter 6)

• The purpose of your study (Chapter 7)
   
• Your approach (Chapter 8)
   
• Your process (Chapter 9)

• Your choice of data-gathering techniques (Chapter 10)
   
• Your choice of analytical methods (Chapter 11)

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Please see Consent Form page 88 of How to Do Your Case Study (2e) for the details about this example consent  form.

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Sample consent form.

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Bagley, C. and Cancienne, M.B. (2001) ‘Educational research and intertextual forms of (re) presentation: The case for dancing the data’, Qualitative Inquiry,7 (2): 221‒37.