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Understanding research : coping with the quantitative - qualitative divide /
Planning, undertaking and completing a research project - from dissertations to presentations - can be a daunting undertaking for any student, involving a number of easily taken mis-steps for those without adequate guidance. The objective of any research project is to gather data, analyse it based o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| 520 | |a Planning, undertaking and completing a research project - from dissertations to presentations - can be a daunting undertaking for any student, involving a number of easily taken mis-steps for those without adequate guidance. The objective of any research project is to gather data, analyse it based on your research question and present your findings and conclusions. For students, having the right approach to these steps can mean the difference between an easily handled process resulting in a well argued and presented project, or panicked flailing, misdirection and confusion. For those fearful of. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Aims and objectives; Who should read this book; Using this book in context; What is academic research?; On divides -- real and imagined; Key concepts and their various uses; Chapter organization; PART 1 DIVIDES AND DESIGNS; 2 Putting research into perspective; Introduction; Key elements of a research project; Looking ahead: milestones, destinations, and expectations; Getting started and deciding a topic; Theory and method -- of carts and horses; Concluding comments; Concluding comments. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3 Research in practice: designing a research projectIntroduction; Main stages in a research project; Work-plans and proposals; From research topic to research question or hypothesis; On science, worldviews, and other brainteasers; Other practical matters: limits, ethics, and codes of practice; Methodological coping strategies -- plotting a course; 4 The politics of research: living with and defending our choices; Introduction; Doing research today: 'location, location, location; Literature searches and the literature review; Historical and philosophical note. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Purpose and categories of literature reviewsPracticalities; Sources and resources that matter; Research communities and (multiple) disciplinary identities; Concluding comments: living with your choices; 5 Online research and web-resourcing skills; Introduction; Setting the record straight; Back the future: a quick prequel; The internet as resource; Digital tools for online data-gathering and analysis; Online research: fields, relationships, ethics; Web-analysis: sites, maps, and hypertexts; Summing up; PART 2 COPING AND COMMUNICATING; 6 Doing research -- gathering data. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Preamble: introduction to Part 2Chapter aims and organization; Data-gathering techniques -- review; Surveys and questionnaires; Interviews; Focus groups; Ethnographic fieldwork and participant-observation; Summing up: repositioning the divide?; 7 Doing research -- analysing findings; Introduction; What is analysis?; Working with texts; Deductive and inductive paths to knowledge; Behaviouralism and its discontents: a worldview in action; Data-gathering as process and product; Concluding comments; 8 Writing it all up and going public; Introduction; What is academic writing? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Writing formalities: citation and style guidesFeedback: examinations and going public; Procrastinations and prevarications; Coping and moving on -- creatively; Revising and editing -- what to look for; The final cut -- what to remember; 9 Conclusion; Reappraising divides imagined and real; To the exit and afterlife of a research project; Appendix 1: informed consent form template; Appendix 2: guidelines for internet research/researching cyberspace; Appendix 3: sample (master-level) ethics form; Glossary; Literature list; Index. | |
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