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Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies : Revised Edition.
Academic skills are the tools that enable you to gain, develop and critically discuss new knowledge during and after your Bachelor's and Master's programme. This handbook offers practical instructions, tips, and tricks that help undergraduate students to develop the skills needed for an in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; About this book; Central theme: research practice and the empirical cycle; Part 1. Orientation and reading; 1. Preparatory reading and searching; Familiarizing yourself with a topic; Finding your bearings outside the university; Finding your bearings at university; Finding your bearings between university and society; An initial literature search; Concepts and theories; Scholarly literature; Grey literature; Academic literature and 'ordinary' search engines; Scholarly search engines; Availability; The library
- Digital search engines and databasesSearch methods; Ordering your search results; Continuous search; Exploratory reading; Speed reading; Sources; Other useful sources; 2. Gathering and organizing key information; Optimizing your study environment; Learning objectives; Reading strategies; Reading textbooks; Reading academic articles and books; Systematic reading; Organizing information; Sources; Other useful sources; 3. Studying thoroughly and critically; Sentence-level analysis; Types of argumentation; Simple argumentation; Plural argumentation; Coordinating argumentation
- Subordinate argumentationImplicit motivation; Critically evaluating texts; Sources; Other useful sources; Part 2. Making your research measurable; 4. From your topic to your question; Theoretical framework; From theories to concepts and dimensions; The theoretical framework and interdisciplinary research; The problem statement; Sources; 5. Formulating a good question; Characteristics of a research question; Types of questions; Sources; 6. A testable concept; Why operationalize?; From dimensions to indicators and variables; Operationalization and validity; Other forms of operationalization
- Safeguarding the validity of quantitative researchKeeping a log; Organizing your data; Getting familiar with your data; Research practice for qualitative research: conducting interviews; Before the interview; During the interview; After the interview; Analysing the interview; After coding; Sources; Other useful sources; 9. The structure of your article; Argumentation structure; Objections; Framing an argument: pitfalls; The structure of a scholarly article; The introduction; The middle section; The literature review; The research article; Methodology; Results; Presenting data; Figures; Table