The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project
Zina O'Leary
SAGE, 20-Mar-2017 - Social Science - 415 pages
The ultimate companion to successfully completing your research project, the author guides you through a step-by-step approach to research and provides all of the skills and momentum you need to excel. Each stage of a project is clearly set out with best practice highlighted alongside pragmatic advice for tackling research in the real world.
The Third Edition uses multidisciplinary case studies, and examples from the author’s own experience, to answer your questions and support your progress as you move smoothly through each stage. There is a new chapter on mixed methods approaches, disseminating research, practical and legal implications of ethics and more international examples.
The book is packed full of learning features and tools to support your journey, including:
A fully-developed website with podcasts, videos, journal articles and examples of real projects
Activities and worksheets to help you organize your time
Learning objectives to sustain your momentum
Top tips relating to key research skills
Full glossary to test understanding and provide definitions
Annotated further reading to help you move through the literature
‘Excuse me, I have a question!’ feature to answer common questions.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=F2ECDgAAQBAJ
The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project
Zina O'Leary
2nd Edition
SAGE, 21-Oct-2009 - Reference - 320 pages
The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project gives students the knowledge and skills they need to get from 'clueless' to 'completed'. This highly readable text guides the reader through each stage of their research project, from getting started to writing up, with each chapter clearly explaining a step along the way.
This new edition retains the warmth, wit and grounded nature of the first, while providing tools to help students through the ins and outs of their own projects, and addressing the key questions students need to tackle, 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 purposive methodological 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 figures and diagrams and engaging real life examples. With this book as your personal mentor, a successfully completed research project is well within reach.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=qcZD738Sr6oC
Researching Real-World Problems: A Guide to Methods of Inquiry
Zina O'Leary
SAGE, 4 nov. 2005 - 312 páginas
This is the perfect book for any student new to Research Methods. It is brilliantly written, witty, and always easy to understand.
Taking as her starting point the need for students to conduct research for themselves in the `real world', Zina O'Leary guides those new to research through the whys and how-tos of the entire research process. Always student-focused, this book offers a hands on and practical guide to the research process from the initial process of coming up with a good question, via methods of gathering information, through to the writing process itself.
Researching Real-World Problems:
- Makes the entire research process a meaningful experience
- Provides a jargon-busting hands-on guide to the entire research process
- Is illustrated throughout with real-life examples
- Speaks directly to the needs of the new researcher
- Locates the researcher and research process at heart of a complex web of social structures
- Provides via the Companion Website link above, PowerPoint slides that cover all 12 chapters of the book. They can be printed out as separate transparencies or used in PowerPoint based lectures. They would also be suitable for applications in e-learning/ web-based teaching.
O'Leary draws her examples from the full range of the Social Sciences, and this is the perfect text for any student in Health, Education or Applied Social Science.
https://books.google.es/books?id=cTNyiWKbWyYC