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Table 2 Methodological Process

From: Welcome to the University of life, can I take your order? Investigating Life Experience Degree Offerings in Diploma mills

Step

Method

1

Initial internet search using key term ‘Life Experience Degree’

2

Familiarisation with websites through close reading

3

Additional search and collection of 10 websites

4

Analysis of persuasive features of 10 websites using Rowland et al.’s (2018) framework

5

Compilation of 10 websites into a web corpus using Sketch Engine

6

Keyword analysis of web corpus to indicate major topics and themes

7

Qualitative-interpretive analysis of randomly selected concordances related to identified keywords