This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports students in conducting their own research projects, whatever discipline they are from. Describing processes, tools and strategies in a simple, succinct way, it supports the reader carefully through the planning and design stages, to implementation, analysis and completion.Doing a Successful Research Project is suitable for an interdisciplinary audience all over the world. It is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking a research project or dissertation across the social sciences, applied social sciences, education, health and business studies. It can also be used as essential or complimentary reading on modules on qualitative and quantitative research and research design.
PART 1 PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT
1. So you're going to do a research project
2. Let's make a start
3. Preparing for a successful research project
4. The principles of sampling
5. Carrying out your survey
6. Questionnaires
7. The art and science of survey interviewing
8. Analysing your survey data
9. Testing for statistical significance: into more complex territory
10. A quantitative researcher's briefing sheet
PART 3 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
11. Studying a small sample
12. Qualitative research interviewing
13. There is more to qualitative research than interviewing
14. Analysing qualitative data
15. A qualitative researcher's briefing sheet
PART 4 THE LAST LAP
16. Writing your report.
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