Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide
- ISBN-10
- 1506350968
- ISBN-13
- 9781506350967
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 600
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-25
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Author
- Sue L. T. McGregor
Description
Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported. The book starts with what it means to be a critical and uncritical reader of research, followed by a detailed chapter on methodology, and then proceeds to a discussion of each component of a research article as it is informed by the methodology. The book encourages readers to select an article from their discipline, learning along the way how to assess each component of the article and come to a judgment of its rigor or quality as a scholarly report. View the brief Table of Contents for this book.
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