ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we move beyond the general plan for an interpretive description study to address specific decisions each researcher must make about what the study’s reference population entails, how it will be sampled, how that sample population will be acquired, and what will be done with that sample population once you have it. This process brings the motivation of a study to life, setting forth the specific steps each researcher intends to follow on their distinctive journey into data collection and analytic reflection. As such, the study proposal becomes the overarching strategic plan for how the study will progress from initial inspiration through to meaningful findings.
