Doing academic research : a practical guide to research methods and analysis / Ted Gournelos, Joshua R. Hammonds and Maridath A. Wilson.
Doing Academic Research is a concise, accessible, and tightly organized overview of the research process in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Conducting effective scholarly research can seem like a frustrating, confusing, and unpleasant experience. Early researchers often have inconsist...
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface: two professors and a librarian walk into a bar . . .; Part I Get the party started right; 1 Learn to love, not dread, research; 2 Where do I start?; 3 Now what do I do? What's a lit review?; 4 Choosing a method; Part II Methodology overviews; 5 Close textual and thematic analysis; 6 Content and discourse analysis; 7 Ethnography, interviews, and focus groups; 8 Surveys; 9 Observational methods in practice (participatory-action research, experimental research, theory, and metasynthesis)
- Part III Data analysis and the final push10 Analyzing qualitative data and making sense of detail; 11 Analyzing quantitative data and making sense of numbers; 12 Persuasion, presentation, and publication; Glossary; Index