Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods - Softcover

Davies, Martin Brett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403993793 ISBN 13: 9781403993793

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

"Doing a Successful Research Project" is a realistic, unceasingly user-friendly guide on how to conduct a research project that talks at the student's level; akin to having a tutor permanently at one's side. It offers an accessible, even-handed introduction to carrying out research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students conducting a research project for the first time. The research process - from planning, through design and implementation, to completion - is described simply and succinctly, with the emphasis throughout on good planning. The book provides students with the self-discipline and the confidence to carry out their own research project, as well as enabling them to assess for themselves the advantages and disadvantages of the differing strategies available.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Davies has extensive social science research expertise. His published work has covered health, education, criminology and social work and he has held research posts in the Home Office, the Universities of Manchester and East Anglia and the National Health Service. He has supervised the research dissertations of more than 750 graduate and undergraduate students.

From the Back Cover

Carrying out a research project is a daunting task. It presents
you with deadline anxieties, unfamiliar language and practical dilemmas.
This book is a straighforwarard guide that will help you manage your
research project successfully.

Doing a Successful Research Project:
- offers all the guidance, support and advice you need when tackling a
research project for the first time; like having a tutor permanently at
your side.
- takes you through the entire research process from planning, through
desuign and implementation, to completion and write-up.
- provides realistic and balanced advice at every stage of teh process,
enabling you to makr sound decisions with confidence.
- includes extensive real-life examples of good and bad reserach practice,
demonstrating the best way to succeed.

Clear and easy-to-use, this non-nonsense textbook will prove indispensable
as you learn about research methods and embark on your firstresearch
project.
to speak to the author himself and access further handy hints and
resources.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403993793
• ISBN 13: 9781403993793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288