Sentence examples for expert informants from inspiring English sources
The content of the semi-structured interview guide was prepared by informal exchanges with expert informants and by conducting a literature review.
These data sources include fully transcribed spoken interactions, interviews with the participants and expert informants, and researcher field notes.
A desk study is combined with 18 semi-structured interviews with expert informants and stakeholders at the national level.
A systematic search of literature in the English language was done on computerized databases, such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Current Contents, in reference lists, by manual searching, and in contact with expert informants.
Among the topics treated are establishing criteria for choosing a suitable sample of comparable RA discussions across the two languages, designing a model for annotating the section's moves and steps, creating an accessible computer-assisted coding scheme, achieving good levels of inter-rater reliability, and obtaining validation from expert informants and writers.
In the context of defining language use tasks in the TLU domain for a job-specific performance assessment development, McNamara (1996) states that such investigations may take four different forms: consultation with expert informants, literature search, job analysis and workplace observation, and collection and examination of texts (spoken and written) from the workplace.
To measure this, we first identified the M&E tasks that managers are reasonably expected to perform within each M&E domain (collection, collation, analysis, use) by consulting the M&E literature and using information from an expert informant (senior provincial manager).
Several data sources, including audio and video recordings, interviews, expert informant insights and observation notes are operationalised to understand the context that the lexicogrammatical items reflexively constitute, for instance the discursive practices the engineers invoke in their working day.
The relative textual prominence assigned to Moves 1 and 3 might point to a rhetorical rationale to display familiarity with existing state of the art and also to articulate one's own clear research objectives, both of which seem to be valued in the academic discourse communities, as evidence by comments from the expert informant.
Following the Swales tradition of genre analysis, the proposals were analyzed in terms of their rhetorical "move" structure, complemented by interviews with the proposal writers and one expert informant to elicit contextual factors such as intended readership, authorial positioning, and institutional expectations for this genre.
For measuring 'exercised authority': in the absence of previously researched tools and formal delegation rules, we optimised content validity by devising sub-scales that we deemed comprehensively described HIV M&E domains, based on our knowledge of the M&E literature, consultation with an expert informant and pilot-testing.
