CASE STUDY

Case study is a careful study of a unit or an object which attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure.

A case study is one of several ways of doing research with detailed analysis. A written or recorded, detailed analysis of some targeted stress factor(s), for the purpose of noting success or failure to used as a benchmark for education, research, and/or planning. It is a research technique where we can identify the key factors that may affect our design.

Case study refers to the collection and presentation of detailed information about a particular matter which involves in-depth studies of specific cases or projects within a program. It includes one or more data collection methods such as interviews, site visit and information through the books or internet.

To obtain a complete picture case study researcher should use a variety of approach and method. Such as:

There are six types of data collected in case studies:

1.      Documents.

2.      Records.

3.      Interviews.

4.      Direct observation.

5.      Participant observation.

6.      Artifacts.

In the field here are the sources that we could do with:

1.      A writer's drafts.

2.      School records of student writers.

3.      Transcripts of interviews with a writer.

4.      Tapes and notes from direct field observations.

5.      Hard copies of a writer's work on computer.

Depending on whether we have chosen to use a single or multi-modal approach for the case study, we can choose to collect data from one or any combination of these sources.