An introduction to research, analysis, and writing : practical skills for social science students /
"This accessible guide walks readers through the process of completing a social science research project. Written specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate research classes, it introduces students to a complete skill set, including: planning, design, analysis, argumentation, criticizing t...
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Los Angeles, California :
Sage Publications,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Way Ahead
- 2. Research Process
- What is Research?
- What are the Objectives and Products of Research?
- What are the Approaches to Research?
- Project Life Cycle
- 3. Research Ethics and Laws
- What are Ethics?
- 4. Scoping, Justifying, Designing, Planning
- Scoping
- The Value of Your Research
- Feasibility
- Developing a Research Question
- Describing, Justifying, Planning, and Proposing the Research
- 5. Reading and Reviewing
- Sources
- How to Read Efficiently
- Content Analysis
- Reviews
- 6. Analysis
- What is Analysis?
- Why Do We Analyze?
- How are We Told to Analyze?
- How Should We Analyze?
- 7. Arguing and Explaining
- Definitions
- Logical Arguments
- True Arguments
- Strong Versus Weak Arguments
- Fallacious Arguments
- Biases
- Dialectic Arguments
- Describing and Critiquing Arguments
- 8. Theorizing and Modeling
- Theories
- Hypotheses
- Models
- 9. Methods
- Methods and Methodologies
- Historical Research
- Case Study
- Survey Research
- Direct Observation in the Field
- Experimental Research
- 10. Evidence and Data
- Observations and Data
- Operationalization
- Measurement
- Classifying Data
- Datasets
- Uses of Data
- Evidence
- Causality and Correlation
- 11. Writing
- Planning the Writing of Your Whole Product
- Style
- Structure.