Research Skills: Analysing Researching and Presenting: Analyzing, Researching and Presenting - Softcover

Moss, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0734608209 ISBN 13: 9780734608208

Publisher: Tilde Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Research Skills: Analysing, Researching and Presenting is not simply a series of formal principles about research. Instead, each chapter begins with some flawed research, and then presents a set of procedures need to be applied, with reference to a hypothetical study on income inequality and wellbeing. Scattered throughout each chapter are additional scientific discoveries that demonstrate important principles, enhance critical thinking, clarify the research process, and inspire the reader.

After reading this book, you should be able to:

• clarify the questions and hypotheses you would like to explore
• review the literature on this research topic
• conduct interviews, focus groups, etc. to collect data
• analyze both quantitative and qualitative data
• recognize and refute alternative explanations
• report the research and
• write more persuasively, concisely, precisely, and engagingly

Research Skills: Analysing, Researching and Presenting will imparts some skills that are vital to many jobs and careers. These include:

• the ability to uncover flaws in the arguments of other people
• the capability to persuade and to influence people
• the capacity to extract information from other people
• the ability to derive recommendations from research
• the capability to write and to communicate effectively and fluently.

About this title

About the Author

Simon Moss (PhD Monash) is an adjust Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a registered psychologist. He lectures in psychology, research design & method, and statistics & data analysis, and supervises students in leadership, emotions, integrity, personnel selection, and data analysis. His primary research interest relates to the factors that promote honest, ethical, cooperative and dedicated behaviour in the workplace. Specifically, he is interested in the misconceptions of individuals that compromise wellbeing and performance. Simon has published scientific papers in a broad range of disciplines, including creativity and problem solving, attention and concentration, facial expressions, psychological disorders, risk and safety, and stress management. He is also co-founder and director of Zenith Professional Development, offering a revolutionary system of management assessment and training.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tilde Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0734608209
• ISBN 13: 9780734608208
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 122