The essential guide to doing your research project

a This is a comprehensive, practical and engaging guide to understanding and embarking upon social science research. By adopting a clear and accessible approach, the text encourages students to think about, and engage with, every aspect of the research process.

Main Author: O'Leary, Zina.
Other Authors: a O?Leary, Zina.
Format: Open Shelf
Published: Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2014..
Edition: 2nd ed..
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300 |a viii,371p.:   |b ill.;   |c 25cm.. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p.[ 297]-304) and index. 
505 0 |a Taking the leap into the research world -- Getting started -- Striving for integrity in the research process -- Developing your research question -- Crafting a research proposal -- Working with literature -- Designing a research plan -- Understandingmethodologies: quantitative, qualitative, and ?mixed? approaches -- Understanding methodologies: evaluative, action-oriented, and emancipatory strategies -- Seeking ?respondents? -- Direct data collection: surveys and interviews -- Indirect data collection: working with observations and existing text -- Analysing quantitative data -- Analysing qualitative data -- The challenge of writing up 
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