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An introduction to research, analysis, and writing : practical skills for social science students / Bruce Oliver Newsome.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles, California : Sage Publications, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1483352552
  • 9781483352558
Other title:
  • Practical skills for social science students
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.721 23
LOC classification:
  • H62
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.
Summary: "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 theories, building theories, modeling theories, choosing methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing the final product. Students can use this text as a practical resource to navigate through each stage of the process, including choices between more advanced research techniques."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 theories, building theories, modeling theories, choosing methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing the final product. Students can use this text as a practical resource to navigate through each stage of the process, including choices between more advanced research techniques."--Publisher's website.

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