Demystifying Research: A Primer for Novice Researchers - Softcover

Jackson, Cynthia L.; Taylor, George R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9087900678 ISBN 13: 9789087900670

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

The Primer is a practical resource for education and social science beginner researchers who can be tentative about how to begin their research projects and find the detailed research books overwhelming, initially. Central to the Primer is a process, developed by Jackson, to guide beginner researchers in conceptualizing and framing a research project. The process, information, examples and exercises were field tested with over 100 doctoral students in dissertation proposal development courses. The contents have proven successful in meeting beginners' initial needs. Written in nontechnical language, readers are guided incrementally through the complexities of focusing a research study, and how to address the initial problems they can encounter when embarking on the research journey. Part I provides preliminary considerations about research and being a researcher. Part II describes ways of thinking about conceptualizing and framing a research study. Part III contains a comparative overview of the quantitative and qualitative research approaches, and highlights some of the research methods associated with each. Part IV assists novice researchers in becoming familiar with data sources for research, contents of a research proposal and a research report, and answers procedural questions that are frequently asked.

About this title

About the Author:

Jackson is a member of the Core Faculty, the Union Institute, Cincinnati. She has been an elementary school teacher as well as a university profesor and dean.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9087900678
• ISBN 13: 9789087900670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 129