How to Research

How to Research
THIRD EDITION

by: Loraine Blaxter, Christina Hughes and
Malcolm Tight


This revised third edition delivers invaluable guidance on how to collect data, write proposals, and make presentations. Offering you step-by-step techniques for the most efficient and focused research in school or work projects, How to Research includes hands-on exercises that build up skills and strengthen research techniques useful for any project, in any field.


Product Details:
Price: $47.43
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Open University Press; 3 edition (November 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 033521746X
ISBN-13: 978-0335217465
Password: englishtips.org

Contents:
List of boxes
1- All at sea but learning to swim:
Introduction
The first time researcher
Getting a flavour of possibilities
Why am I doing this research?
Will I have anything new to say?
In whose interests is this research?
At last, writing up
How to use this book
What’s different about this edition?
Summary
Exercises
Further reading

2- Getting started:
Introduction
Choosing a topic
What to do if you can’t think of a topic
Focusing
Finding and choosing your supervisor
Individual and group research
Researching in your workplace
Keeping your research diary
Summary
Exercises
Further reading

3- Thinking about methods:
Introduction
Everyday research skills
Which method is best?
Families, approaches and techniques
Action research
Case studies
Experiments
Surveys
Which methods suit?
Deciding about methods
Summary
Exercises
Further reading

4- Reading for research:
Introduction
Why read?
Coping with the research literature
Basic reading strategies
Using libraries
Using the Internet
Good enough reading
Reading about method as well as subject
Recording your reading
The literature review
Issues in reading
Summary
Exercises
Further reading

5- Managing your project:
Introduction
Managing time
Mapping your project
Piloting
Dealing with key figures and institutions
Sharing responsibility
Using computers
Managing not to get demoralized when things do not go
as planned
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
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6- Collecting data:
Introduction
Access and ethical issues
Sampling and selection
Applying techniques for collecting data
Documents
Interviews
Observations
Questionnaires
Recording your progress
The ups and downs of data collection
Summary
Exercises
Further reading

7- Analysing data:
Introduction
The shape of your data
The nature of data
Managing your data
Computer-based data management and analysis
The process of analysis
Analysing documents
Analysing interviews
Analysing observations
Analysing questionnaires
Interpretation
Summary
Exercises
Further reading

8- Writing up:
Introduction
Drafting and re-drafting
How to argue
How to criticize
Who am I writing for?
Grammar, referencing and plagiarism
Using tables, diagrams and other illustrations
Panics
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
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9- Finishing off:
Introduction
Planning to finish?
The penultimate and final drafts
Added extras
The process of assessment
What do I do now?
Summary
Exercise
Further reading
References
Index

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