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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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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.