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The undergraduate research handbook / Gina Wisker.

By: Wisker, Gina, 1951-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Palgrave study skills.Publisher: London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: p. cm.ISBN: 9780230520974 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Research -- Methodology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | General | Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Study & learning skills: generalDDC classification: 001.4 WIS
Contents:
Introduction: How to Use This Book -- Part I. Getting Started. 1. The Enquiring Mind in Action -- 2. Starting Research -- 3. Good Research: The Essentials -- 4. Carrying Out Research for a Project or Dissertation -- 5. Research Paradigms, Theorising and Conceptual Frameworks -- 6. Writing a Research Proposal -- 7. Carrying Out a Literature Review: Engaging with the Literature -- 8. Research Methodology and Methods -- 9. Finding and Using Sources -- 10. Using the Internet for Research -- 11. Quantitative Methods in Action: Questionnaires, Observation -- 12. Qualitative Methods in Action -- 13. Varieties of Research: Practitioner-Based and Action Research, Phenomenography and Ethnography, and other Real-World Research -- Part II. Managing People and Processes. 14. Collecting, Selecting, Organising and Analysing Data, Interpretation -- 15. Managing Your Tutor or Supervisor -- 16. Managing Your Time, Life, Paid Work and Research -- 17. Putting Ethics into Practice -- Part III. Difference, Writing and Moving On. 18. International Students -- 19. Researching and Writing in Different Disciplines -- 20. Developing Good Writing Habits -- 21. Writing Well, in the Right Shapes and Forms: the Authority of Your Research and Your Writing -- 22. Maintaining Momentum: Overcoming Difficulties with Time, Writing, the Project and the Research Processes -- 23. What Do Examiners Look For? What Do Employers Look For? And How to Ensure Your Work Matches Their Expectations.
Summary: A practical, research-informed text providing student researchers with models, tasks and activities to enable them to think through, plan, action, write up and present their research.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This practical, research-informed text will provide students across all disciplines with models, tasks and activities to enable them to plan, action, write and present quality research. It will help develop ideas, creative thinking and systematic research practices to enable students to produce high quality dissertations and reports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: How to Use This Book -- Part I. Getting Started. 1. The Enquiring Mind in Action -- 2. Starting Research -- 3. Good Research: The Essentials -- 4. Carrying Out Research for a Project or Dissertation -- 5. Research Paradigms, Theorising and Conceptual Frameworks -- 6. Writing a Research Proposal -- 7. Carrying Out a Literature Review: Engaging with the Literature -- 8. Research Methodology and Methods -- 9. Finding and Using Sources -- 10. Using the Internet for Research -- 11. Quantitative Methods in Action: Questionnaires, Observation -- 12. Qualitative Methods in Action -- 13. Varieties of Research: Practitioner-Based and Action Research, Phenomenography and Ethnography, and other Real-World Research -- Part II. Managing People and Processes. 14. Collecting, Selecting, Organising and Analysing Data, Interpretation -- 15. Managing Your Tutor or Supervisor -- 16. Managing Your Time, Life, Paid Work and Research -- 17. Putting Ethics into Practice -- Part III. Difference, Writing and Moving On. 18. International Students -- 19. Researching and Writing in Different Disciplines -- 20. Developing Good Writing Habits -- 21. Writing Well, in the Right Shapes and Forms: the Authority of Your Research and Your Writing -- 22. Maintaining Momentum: Overcoming Difficulties with Time, Writing, the Project and the Research Processes -- 23. What Do Examiners Look For? What Do Employers Look For? And How to Ensure Your Work Matches Their Expectations.

A practical, research-informed text providing student researchers with models, tasks and activities to enable them to think through, plan, action, write up and present their research.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Glossary (p. vii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xviii)
  • Introduction: How to Use This Book (p. xix)
  • Part 1 Getting Started (p. 1)
  • 1 The Enquiring Mind in Action (p. 3)
  • 2 Starting Research (p. 18)
  • 3 Good Research: The Essentials (p. 29)
  • 4 Carrying Out Research for a Project or Dissertation (p. 48)
  • 5 Research Paradigms, Theorising and Conceptual Frameworks (p. 60)
  • 6 Writing a Research Proposal (p. 70)
  • 7 Carrying Out a Literature Review: Engaging with the Literature (p. 78)
  • 8 Research Methodology and Methods (p. 88)
  • 9 Finding and Using Sources (p. 99)
  • 10 Using the Internet for Research (p. 109)
  • 11 Quantitative Methods in Action: Questionnaires, Observation (p. 121)
  • 12 Qualitative Methods in Action (p. 129)
  • 13 Varieties of Research: Practitioner-Based and Action Research, Phenomenography and Ethnography, and other Real-World Research (p. 140)
  • Part 2 Managing People and Processes (p. 153)
  • 14 Collecting, Selecting, Organising and Analysing Data, Interpretation (p. 155)
  • 15 Managing Your Tutor or Supervisor (p. 171)
  • 16 Managing Your Time, Life, Paid Work and Research (p. 186)
  • 17 Putting Ethics into Practice (p. 205)
  • Part 3 Difference, Writing and Moving On (p. 219)
  • 18 International Students (p. 221)
  • 19 Researching and Writing in Different Disciplines (p. 233)
  • 20 Developing Good Writing Habits (p. 243)
  • 21 Writing Well, in the Right Shapes and Forms: the Authority of Your Research and Your Writing (p. 256)
  • 22 Maintaining Momentum: Overcoming Difficulties with Time, Writing, the Project and the Research Processes (p. 270)
  • 23 what Do Examiners Look For? What Do Employers Look For? And How to Ensure Your Work Matches Their Expectations (p. 283)
  • Bibliography (p. 294)
  • Index (p. 297)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Gina Wisker is Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton. She is the co-editor and committee chair of the SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International and is the author of The Postgraduate Research Handbook, The Good Supervisor and Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature all published by Palgrave Macmillan.