The essential guide to doing your research project. ([2010])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Essential guide to doing research
• Further Information: Note: Zina O'Leary.
• Other Names: O'Leary, Zina
• Contents: Taking the leap into the research world -- Getting started -- Striving for integrity in the research process -- Developing your research question -- Crafting a research proposal -- Working with literature -- Designing a research plan -- Understanding methodologies: quantitative, qualitative, and 'mixed' approaches -- Understanding methodologies: evaluative, action-oriented, and emancipatory strategies -- Seeking 'respondents' -- Direct data collection: surveys and interviews -- Indirect data collection: working with observations and existing text -- Analysing quantitative data -- Analysing qualitative data -- The challenge of writing up.
• Edition: [2nd edition]
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 308 pages)
• Subjects: 300.723; Research -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446203361; 1446203360
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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