Learnings from attending seminars

During seminars some questions keep cropping up repeatedly. Presenters would do well to address these queries up front. This is an ongoing collection of such queries.

• Why is there a gap?
• Definition of terms
  • Completely
  • Unambiguously
• Specific examples to support your conclusions
• What would happen in the reverse situation
• Justification of inferences, particularly for qualitative research
• Encourage questions, allow questions to complete and then answer
• Answer at least the following questions in your presentation
  • Why is your work important?
  • What is new in your work?
  • What is non-obvious or novel in your work?
• Purely qualitative research needs very solid theoretical backing
• For inferences from case studies, use external data for validation
• Get access to documents if you do qualitative research, record interviews, get them transcribed by someone other than you.
• Work like a historian
• Tell it like a good story teller