The Essential Guide To Doing Your Research Project

The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research aims to arm students with theknowledge and skills needed to get them from clueless to completed. This isa highly acce... » 

The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research aims to arm students with theknowledge and skills needed to get them from clueless to completed. This isa highly accessible text which takes students through all aspects of conductinga research project from conception to dissemination with chapters sequencedto mirror research processes.In this fully revised and expanded edition The Essential Guide retains thewarmth wit and grounded nature of the original while incorporating even morefeatures designed to successfully guide students through ins and outs ofconducting their own research project.The Essential Guide addresses the key question students need to tackle in whenconducting research such as What is this thing called research and why do it? How can I assure that my research project has integrity? How to I develop a researchable question? How do I construct a winning proposal? What exactly is expected in a literature review? What options are there in qualitative quantitative mixed and more purposivemethodological designs? Is it best to work with a sample key informants or a case? What data collection options are there and how do I choose? How should I work with my quantitative data? What should I do with my qualitative data? How in the world will I capture this on paper?This is an inspiring book full of down to earth advice illuminating figure anddiagrams and engaging real life examples. With this book acting as a personalmentor a successfully completed research project is well within reach.Zina OLeary is an applied social scientist and senior lecturer at theUniversity of Western Sydney. She is the author of Researching RealWorldProblems and The Social Science Jargon Buster. «