The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project - Couverture souple

O'leary, Zina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1446258971 ISBN 13 : 9781446258972

Editeur : Sage Publications Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project 2e is the ultimate companion to successfully completing your research project. Warm and pragmatic, it gives you the skills and the confidence needed to succeed no matter what happens along the way. The book guides you through every step of your research project, from getting started to analysing data and writing up. Each stage is clearly set out, highlighting best practice and providing practical tips and down-to-earth advice for actually doing research. Key features include: * Fully developed website including podcasts, worksheets, examples of real projects and links to journal articles * Chapter summaries * Boxed definitions of key terms * Full glossary * Suggestions for further reading Bursting with real world examples and multidisciplinary case studies, this book addresses the key questions posed by anyone hoping to complete a research project. It is the must-have textbook every student needs.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project aims to arm students with the knowledge and skills needed to get them from 'clueless' to 'completed'. This is a highly accessible text which takes students through all aspects of conducting a research project, from conception to dissemination, with chapters sequenced to mirror research processes.

In this fully revised and expanded edition, The Essential Guide retains the warmth, wit and grounded nature of the original, while incorporating even more features designed to successfully guide students through ins and outs of conducting their own research project.

The Essential Guide addresses the key question students need to tackle in when conducting research, such as:

- What is this thing called research and why do it?

- How can I assure that my research project has integrity?

- How to I develop a researchable question?

- How do I construct a winning proposal?

- What exactly is expected in a literature review?

- What options are there in qualitative, quantitative, mixed and more purposive methodological designs?

- Is it best to work with a sample, key informants, or a case?

- What data collection options are there and how do I choose?

- How should I work with my quantitative data?

- What should I do with my qualitative data?

- How in the world will I capture this on paper?

This is an inspiring book full of down to earth advice, illuminating figure and diagrams and engaging real life examples. With this book acting as a personal mentor, a successfully completed research project is well within reach.

Zina O'Leary is an applied social scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. She is the author of Researching Real-World Problems and The Social Science Jargon Buster.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sage Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1446258971
• ISBN 13: 9781446258972
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 384