Research category: 4571 books
Designing and Managing Your Research Project
Core Skills for Social and Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students planning theses and dissertations and other early career researchers, Designing and Managing Your Research Project helps you successfully plan and complete your research project by showing the key skills that you will need. ...
by Christine Daymon, Immy Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The second edition of this highly accessible, core textbook continues to offer students a practical guide to the process of planning, undertaking and writing about qualitative research in public relations and marketing communications. Through clear explanations and illustrations, the book encourages...
Qualitative Social Research
Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Qualitative Social Research employs an accessible approach to present the multiple ways in which criticism enhances research practice. Packed full of relevant, 'real world' examples, it showcases the strengths and pitfalls of each research method, integrating the philosophical groundings of qualitative...
by David Meade
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Business owners and writers face a common set of problems â how to research, find and investigate topics that can be written about. The Web is a multi-dimensionary repository but it can require specialized tools to locate and develop this information. Public records, vital records, research...
Research Design
Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and...
Research for Designers
A Guide to Methods and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Instructors - Electronic inspection copies are available or contact your local sales representative for an inspection copy of the print version.
'Today, designers design services, processes and organizations; craft skills no longer suffice. We need to discover, define and solve problems...
Your Research Project
Designing and Planning Your Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In the third edition of this bestselling book, you'll find everything you need to embark upon your research project and write your proposal with confidence. Written with the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in mind, Your Research Project will guide you through...
Qualitative Research
Good Decision Making Through Understanding People, Cultures and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Qualitative Research helps those who have limited experience of qualitative research, to become proficient buyers of research. It will enable buyers to commission QR with confidence; to choose a supplier, agree a methodology with the research agency, understand the process and end up with useful outputs...
Action Research
Using Strategic Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Action Research: Using Strategic Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning is a core text for the Action Research course in Education. The proposed text seeks to address the needs of practitioners as it will be primarily written for use within a graduate level action research class. It will be oriented...
Nursing Research Using Grounded Theory
Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Grounded theory, often considered the parent of all qualitative research, is a complex approach used to develop theory about a phenomenon rooted in observation of empirical data. Widely used in nursing, grounded theory enables researchers to apply what they learn from interviewees to a wider client...
by Dr Hugh McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
This book represents a major contribution to the development and increasingly accepted importance of involving service users in research. It argues that this development is neither a fad nor a cure-all, and highlights the strengths, weaknesses, benefits and costs of the approach.
It is the...
by Thomas Mann
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer...
Research Methods in Practice
Strategies for Description and Causation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The Second Edition of Research Methods in Practice: Strategies for Description and Causation sets an entirely new standard for presenting and learning research methods. The perspective gained from this text makes it a truly necessary tool for such applied disciplines as public affairs and administration,...
by Bryan C. Taylor, Thomas R. Lindlof
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Qualitative Communication Research Methods, Fourth Edition introduces you to qualitative research in speech and mass communication. Award-winning scholars and authors Thomas R. Lindlof and Bryan C. Taylor guide you through every step of the qualitative process, from developing research topics and...