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Asking Questions: Techniques for Semistructured Interviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2003

Beth L. Leech
Affiliation:
Rutgers University

Abstract

In an interview, what you already know is as important as what you want to know. What you want to know determines which questions you will ask. What you already know will determine how you ask them.

Type
SYMPOSIUM
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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