Your Research Project: Designing, Planning, and Getting Started

Your Research Project: Designing, Planning, and Getting Started
ISBN-10
1526482118
ISBN-13
9781526482112
Series
Your Research Project
Category
Reference
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2019-12-06
Publisher
SAGE
Author
Nicholas Walliman

Description

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project. The new edition of this bestselling book will help you: - Explain research theory within the context of your own project - Curate, structure, and format your literature review - Anticipate the challenges of social media and web-based research - Apply ‘how to’ tips quickly to your own research planning and design - Monitor your progress in the field with checklists - Develop writing habits to use as a springboard for dissertations, reports, and articles - Build a foundation of practical, general research skills like time management, organization, and critical thinking to carry you beyond your project. New to the 4th Edition: - New step-by-step chapter on how to write a successful research proposal - New chapter 'Writing Strategies' offers guidelines for different assignments to help carry students beyond their research proposal - More ‘How To’ examples of literature reviews, proposals and ethics applications - Expanded coverage of literature review strategies - more emphasis on accessing on-line resources and use of the internet - Enhanced checklists of issues for consideration or tasks students should undertake in order to progress their work - More information surrounding online and social media research and implications on information sourcing, ethics, and methods - Increased coverage of the research methods section to include more practical support and additional information on mixed-methods - Further stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism with an expanded section on this topic.

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