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. |
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Other Authors: | a O?Leary, Zina. |
Format: | Open Shelf |
Published: |
Thousand Oaks:
Sage Publications,
2014..
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Edition: | 2nd ed.. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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