The essential guide to doing your research project / Zina O'Leary.
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TextPublisher: London : SAGE, [2021]Edition: 4th edDescription: viii, 438 p, : ill, 25 cmContent type: - text
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- 9781529713466
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- 9781529713473
- 1529713471
- Essential guide to doing research
- 300.72 23
- Q 180.55.M4 . O54 2021
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"First published in 2004 as 'The essential guide to doing research. The essential guide to doing your research project first published 2010."--verso.
Previous edition: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-431) and index.
Taking the leap into the research world -- Setting up and getting started -- Developing your research question -- Undertaking credible and ethical research -- Crafting a research proposal -- Reviewing literature -- Designing a research plan -- Understanding methodologies: quantitative and qualitative approaches -- Understanding methodologies: mixed approaches -- Understanding methodologies: evaluative, action-oriented and emancipatory strategies -- Identifying and selecting samples, informants and cases -- Primary data: surveys, interviews and observation -- Secondary data -- Online generated data -- Analysing quantitative data -- Analysing qualitative data -- The challenge of writing up -- Final hurdles.
"This practical book sets out how to approach each stage of your research project, from choosing a research design and methodology to collecting and analysing data and communicating your results--and showcases best practice along the way."-- Publisher's description.
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