SAGE Course Companions are an exciting new series from SAGE offering students an insiders guide into how to make the most of their undergraduate courses and extend their understanding of key concepts covered in their course.
Social Research Methods provides student readers with essential help with their research project, with revising for their course exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and thinking skills in line with course requirements on Research Methods courses.
This Course Companion is designed to augment, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course, and will provide:
" Helpful summaries of the course curriculum to aid essay and project planning
" Key summaries of the approach taken by the main Methods textbooks
" Guidance on the essential study skills required
" Help with developing critical thinking
" Route-maps to aid the development of wider learning above and beyond the textbook
" Pointers to success in course exams and written assessment exercises
" A tutors-eye view of what course examiners are looking for
" An insiders view of what key course concepts are really all about
SAGE Course Companions are much more than revision guides for undergraduate; they are an essential tool to taking your course learning and understanding to new levels and in new directions that are the key to success in undergraduate courses.
PART ONE: SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS
Introduction to Your Companion
PART TWO: CORE AREAS OF THE CURRICULUM
Theoretical Background
Research Basics
Research Strategies and Design
The Nature of Data
Defining the Research Problem
Sampling
Data Collection Methods
Experimental Design
Quantitative Data Analysis
Qualitative Data Analysis
Ethics
PART THREE: STUDY AND REVISION SKILLS
How To Get the Most Out of Your Lectures - (written in collaboration with David McIlroy)
How To Make the Most of Seminars
Revision Hints and Tips
Exam Tips
Tips on Interpreting Essay and Exam Questions
Essay Writing
Writing a Literature Review
Writing a Research Proposal
Writing Up a Dissertation or Research Project
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.
