Practical Research - Softcover

Paul D. Leedy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1292021179 ISBN 13: 9781292021171

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

Synopsis

For research classes taken in college.

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From the Back Cover

Practical Research is a comprehensive and practical guide to research methodology.¿ Suited for self-instruction, this easy-to-read manual guides the beginning researcher, step by step, through the entire research process with practical suggestions. This “do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself” approach is designed to help research students understand the fundamental structure of quality research in any discipline including:

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Accounting · Agriculture · Anthropology · Architecture · Art Education · Behavioral Research · Biology · Business Administration · Business Communication · Business Education · Business Law · Chemistry · Child and Family Studies · Civil/Construction Technology · Clothing and Textiles · Communications · Computer Information Systems · Counseling · Criminal Justice · Criminology · Decision Science · Economics · Education · Electronic Technology · English · Environmental Technology · Foods and Nutrition · Foreign Languages · Geography · Geology/Oceanography · Government · Health Sciences · History · Hospitality Careers · Insurance · Journalism · Library Science · Literature · Management · Marketing · Mathematics · Mechanical/Industrial Technology · Minority Studies · Music/Musicology · Nursing · Nutrition · Philosophy · Physical Education · Physics/Astronomy · Political Science · Psychology · Real Estate · Religion · Sociology · Social Work · Speech/Speech Therapy · Taxation · Technical Trades · Theater · Theology · Urban Studies

About the Author

Paul D. Leedy is late of the American University. Jeanne Ellis Ormrod holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Brown University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. For more than twenty years she was a faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, where she taught courses in learning and cognition, educational psychology, measurement, and research methods; she is currently Professor Emerita of Psychological Sciences at UNC. Dr. Ormrod has published numerous research articles but is probably best known for this textbook and several other Pearson books: Human Learning (6th ed., 2012); Educational Psychology: Developing Learners (7th ed., 2011); Essentials of Educational Psychology (3rd ed., 2012); Our Minds, Our Memories: Enhancing Thinking and Learning at All Ages (2011); and Child Development and Education (with Teresa McDevitt; 5th ed. in press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1292021179
• ISBN 13: 9781292021171
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384