The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project - Softcover

Zina O'Leary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8132106466 ISBN 13: 9788132106463

Publisher: Sage Publication, 2011

Synopsis

The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project gives students the knowledge and skills they need to get from `clueless` to `completed`. This highly engaging text guides the reader through each stage of their research project, from getting started to writing up, with each chapter clearly explaining a step along the way. Based on the author`s hugely popular The Essential Guide to Doing Research, this new book retains the warmth, wit and grounded nature of the first, while providing tools to help students through the ins and outs of their own projects, and addressing the key questions students need to tackle, such as: - What is this thing called research and why do it? - How can I assure that my research project has integrity? - How to I develop a researchable question? - How do I construct a winning proposal? - What exactly is expected in a literature review? - What options are there in qualitative, quantitative, mixed and more purposive methodological designs? - Is it best to work with a sample, key informants, or a case? - What data collection options are there and how do I choose? - How should I work with my quantitative data? - What should I do with my qualitative data? - How in the world will I capture this on paper? This is an inspiring book full of down-to-earth advice, illuminating figures and diagrams and engaging real-life examples. With this book as your personal mentor, a successfully completed research project is well within reach. A companion website is available Table of Contents Taking the Leap into the Research World Getting Started Striving for Integrity in the Research Process Developing Your Research Question Crafting A Research Proposal Working

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About the Author

Dr Zina O'Leary is an internationally recognised leader in research methodologies and has a keen interest in the application of research to evidence based decision making in both the private and public sector. She designs and coordinates research units at the University of Sydney (Business School and Graduate School of Government) and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Zina also has an extensive history as a consultant and research coordinator for the Centre for Environmental Health Development at the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre. She is the author of Researching Real World Problems, and The Social Science Jargon Buster.

Review

One of the best guides on planning and implementing research! O′Leary′s book will be an essential part of my future courses to make sure that students really grasp the different phases of a (small) research project. (Martin Senn 2013-10-17)

This book is very accessible and provides a useful overview of the range of research approaches. It adopts a very practical approach to undertaking research, providing students with clear guidance at each stage of the process. (Michelle Butler 2013-10-17)

An excellent introduction for undergraduate students looking to delve into the world of research. This book will help guide them through the process of planning research, collecting and analysing data, as well as writing the whole thing up. It is an essential guide that really is essential. (Tom Clark 2013-10-17)

This latest work from Zina O’Leary continues and extends her valuable contribution to the research methodology literature.  The book is clear, logically laid out and comprehensive, covering everything research students require.  Once again, the writing is inviting and accessible.  The result is a book which will be of great use to research students, and to those who teach them.  Zina O’Leary’s experience in working with research students shines through.   

(Keith Punch 2013-10-22)

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publication
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8132106466
• ISBN 13: 9788132106463
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320