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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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