Your Research Project: Designing, Planning, and Getting Started - Couverture rigide

Nicholas Walliman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1526441195 ISBN 13 : 9781526441195

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project.  The new edition of this bestselling book will help you:

- Explain research theory within the context of your own project  

- Curate, structure, and format your literature review

- Anticipate the challenges of social media and web-based research

- Apply ‘how to’ tips quickly to your own research planning and design

- Monitor your progress in the field with checklists

- Develop writing habits to use as a springboard for dissertations, reports, and articles

- Build a foundation of practical, general research skills like time management, organization, and critical thinking to carry you beyond your project.  

New to the 4th Edition:

- New step-by-step chapter on how to write a successful research proposal 

- New chapter 'Writing Strategies' offers guidelines for different assignments to help carry students beyond their research proposal

- More ‘How To’ examples of literature reviews, proposals and ethics applications

- Expanded coverage of literature review strategies - more emphasis on accessing on-line resources and use of the internet

- Enhanced checklists of issues for consideration or tasks students should undertake in order to progress their work

- More information surrounding online and social media research and implications on information sourcing, ethics, and methods 

- Increased coverage of the research methods section to include more practical support and additional information on mixed-methods 

- Further stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism with an expanded section on this topic.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Nicholas Walliman is a qualified architect and Associate Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University and is a former research associate in the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He has been engaged on a series of nationally and internationally funded research projects on aspects of building technology and has published many research papers. He has also supervised and examined numerous PhD, MPhil and Masters students. He has published a number of books on doing research and writing papers, dissertations and theses.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives students the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for a research project.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526441195
• ISBN 13: 9781526441195
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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