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Your Research Project: Designing and Planning Your Work 3rd Revised edition [Kõva köide]

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  • ISBN-10: 1849204616
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Essential reading for students at all levels across the social sciences who want a lively, straightforward guide to planning their research project. In the third edition of this bestselling book, youll find everything you need to embark upon your research project with confidence. Written with the needs of students at undergraduate, Masters and postgraduate level in mind, Doing Your Research Project will guide you through the process of formulating a research question, choosing your research methods, planning your research, and getting started. Fully updated and revised, the new edition features: - A comprehensive introduction to the purpose and nature of research - Expanded coverage of writing a research plan or proposal - Advice on finding and managing information - An overview of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis, as well as more on mixed methods research designs - New sections on digital media and online research methods - Brand new exercises and examples to provide students from across the social sciences with the practical tools needed to succeed in their project The new edition is essential reading for students at all levels across the social sciences who want a lively, straightforward guide to planning their research project.

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I can heartily recommend the third edition of this popular text. It has been up-dated and enhanced to recognise the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students who are new to the research process, and deserves to be on every reading list Graham Stew Principal Lecturer in Health, University of Brighton





This book is a must have for anyone embarking on a research project. It guides the reader through each step of the research project, providing clear summary boxes and exercises, making it particularly relevant for students and lecturers alike Kalwant Bhopal Head of the Social Justice and Inclusive Education Research Centre, University of Southampton









Having run a PhD programme (comprising over 40 students) for six years and supervised 16 research students, nine to completion, I feel qualified to testify to the value of this book. Learning has become increasingly structured in the last two decades and new research students are often overwhelmed by the demands of PhD study, which requires conceptual thinking, independence, self-motivation and creativity. In my view, this unique publication offers an excellent and indispensable guide to research for first-timers. I wholeheartedly recommend it Elizabeth Burton Professor of Sustainable Building, Design and Wellbeing, University of Warwick









The third edition of Wallimans guide for novice researchers has been thoroughly updated to reflect methodological developments. It retains the unique characteristics which made earlier versions so successful: a theoretically-informed introduction to the research process grounded in an understanding of how individuals learn most effectively Emma Wincup University of Leeds

About the Author xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction xix
Chapter 1 Research and the Research Problem
1(56)
AIMS
2(1)
Introduction
2(1)
What is Research?
2(5)
What It is For -- The Objectives of Research
7(1)
Types of Research
8(14)
Historical
9(2)
Comparative
11(1)
Descriptive
12(1)
Correlation
13(1)
Experimental
14(2)
Evaluation
16(2)
Action
18(1)
Ethnogenic
19(1)
Feminist
19(1)
Cultural
20(2)
The Research Process
22(6)
Desirable characteristics of research findings
27(1)
Starting Your Own Research
28(12)
Finding and defining a research problem
29(2)
Some common mistakes
31(2)
Aids to locating and analysing problems
33(2)
Research problem definition
35(1)
The sub-problems
36(4)
Planning A Research Project
40(11)
Choosing a research strategy
40(2)
Planning your projects
42(9)
The Next Steps: Finding Your Research Problem Area
51(3)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
52(2)
Consolidation and assessment
54(1)
Further Reading
54(3)
Chapter 2 Research Theory and the Nature of Knowledge
57(30)
AIMS
58(1)
Philosophy and the Debate About the Structure of Science and the Nature of Knowledge
58(5)
Scientific enquiry
59(1)
Pure induction
60(3)
Deduction and the principle of falsification
63(1)
Hypothesis
63(1)
Falsification
64(1)
Hypothetico-deductive or scientific method
65(2)
Critical rationalism
67(1)
Relativism
67(2)
`Anti-method' stance
69(2)
Approaches to Social Research
71(10)
The positivist approach
72(2)
The interpretivist approach
74(2)
The reconciliatory approach
76(1)
Critical realism
77(1)
Structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism
78(3)
Conclusions
81(1)
The Next Steps: the Theoretical Basis of Your Research Project
81(2)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
82(1)
Consolidation and assessment
83(1)
Further Reading
83(4)
Chapter 3 Concepts, Language and Argument
87(48)
AIMS
87(1)
Introduction
88(1)
Concepts and Theory
88(19)
Concepts
88(12)
Theory
100(7)
Language and Argument
107(21)
Statements: existent and relational
108(3)
Discourse and argument
111(11)
Fallacies in argument
122(3)
Classification and analogy in argument
125(3)
Conclusions
128(1)
The Next Steps: Which Type of Research for Your Topic?
129(3)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
129(2)
Consolidation and assessment
131(1)
Further Reading
132(3)
Chapter 4 Information, and How to Deal With It
135(36)
AIMS
136(1)
Introduction
136(1)
Finding the Literature
137(6)
Sources of information
137(3)
The Internet
140(1)
Evaluating Web sources
141(1)
Search techniques for online catalogues, databases and the Internet
142(1)
Dealing with Information
143(14)
Reading
144(3)
Note-taking
147(9)
Personalized bibliographies
156(1)
Doing A Literature Review
157(8)
Critical reading skills
158(1)
Doing the review
159(3)
Style and content of the review
162(3)
Conclusions
165(1)
The Next Steps: Devising Your Own Information System and Writing Your Literature Review
166(3)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
166(2)
Consolidation and assessment
168(1)
Further Reading
169(2)
Chapter 5 Research Methods
171(68)
AIMS
172(1)
Introduction
172(1)
Data Collection and Analysis
173(4)
Quantitative and qualitative research
174(1)
Research strategies
175(1)
The links between perspectives
176(1)
Collecting Secondary Data
177(3)
Types and sources of secondary data
178(1)
Suitability of data for your project
179(1)
Authentication and credibility
179(1)
Analysing Secondary Data
180(4)
Content analysis
180(3)
Data mining
183(1)
Meta-analysis
183(1)
Collecting Primary Data
184(15)
Sampling
184(6)
Questionnaires and diaries
190(2)
Interviews: structured, semi-structured and open
192(2)
Standardized scales and tests
194(1)
Accounts
194(1)
Observations and physical surveys
195(2)
Using the Internet for primary research
197(2)
Combined Data Generation and Analysis
199(10)
Laboratory and field experiments
200(1)
Types of experiment
201(3)
Models
204(5)
Analysing Data
209(19)
Quantitative analysis
210(5)
Qualitative analysis
215(10)
Qualitative analysis of texts, documents and discourse
225(3)
Conclusions
228(1)
The Next Steps: Which Research Methods Will You Use?
229(3)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
229(3)
Consolidation and assessment
232(1)
Further Reading
232(7)
Chapter 6 Honesty and Research Ethics
239(36)
AIMS
239(1)
Introduction
240(1)
Honesty in Your Work
240(5)
Intellectual ownership and plagiarism
240(1)
Citation and acknowledgement
241(1)
Responsibility and accountability of the researcher
242(1)
Data and interpretations
242(3)
Where do you stand?
245(1)
Situations that Raise Ethical Issues
245(15)
Research aims
246(4)
Participants
250(3)
Carrying out the research
253(7)
Ethics Policies, Permissions and Committees
260(7)
Organizations
260(4)
Ethics committees
264(3)
Conclusions
267(1)
The Next Steps: Plan Your Code of Ethics
268(5)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
268(4)
Consolidation and assessment
272(1)
Further Reading
273(2)
Chapter 7 Preparing the Research Proposal and Starting to Write
275(64)
AIMS
276(1)
Introduction
276(1)
The Recipe For A Successful Research Proposal
277(1)
Types of Research Proposal
277(2)
The Main Ingredients and Sequence
279(13)
The title
279(1)
Aims of the research
280(1)
The background
281(1)
The research problem
282(5)
Definition of research objectives
287(1)
Outline of methods
288(2)
Possible outcomes of the research
290(1)
Additional information for proposals for funded research
291(1)
Finalizing Your Proposal
292(22)
Successful proposals
299(15)
How to Get Started with Writing
314(18)
The writing process
315(1)
Forming the structure and preparing an outline
316(3)
Retrieving and organizing notes
319(1)
Drafting and redrafting
320(7)
Presentation
327(1)
Bibliographies, references and footnotes
328(4)
Conclusions
332(1)
The Next Steps: Your Research Proposal
332(4)
Checklist of activities that will progress your research
333(2)
Consolidation and assessment
335(1)
Further Reading
336(3)
Answers to Exercises 339(20)
Key Words Glossary 359(10)
References 369(6)
Index 375
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.