An introduction to research, analysis, and writing : practical skills for social science students /
Practical skills for social science students
Bruce Oliver Newsome.
- xvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Way Ahead -- Research Process -- What is Research? -- What are the Objectives and Products of Research? -- What are the Approaches to Research? -- Project Life Cycle -- Research Ethics and Laws -- What are Ethics? -- Scoping, Justifying, Designing, Planning -- Scoping -- The Value of Your Research -- Feasibility -- Developing a Research Question -- Describing, Justifying, Planning, and Proposing the Research -- Reading and Reviewing -- Sources -- How to Read Efficiently -- Content Analysis -- Reviews -- Analysis -- What is Analysis? -- Why Do We Analyze? -- How are We Told to Analyze? -- How Should We Analyze? -- Arguing and Explaining -- Definitions -- Logical Arguments -- True Arguments -- Strong Versus Weak Arguments -- Fallacious Arguments -- Biases -- Dialectic Arguments -- Describing and Critiquing Arguments -- Theorizing and Modeling -- Theories -- Hypotheses -- Models -- Methods -- Methods and Methodologies -- Historical Research -- Case Study -- Survey Research -- Direct Observation in the Field -- Experimental Research -- Evidence and Data -- Observations and Data -- Operationalization -- Measurement -- Classifying Data -- Datasets -- Uses of Data -- Evidence -- Causality and Correlation -- Writing -- Planning the Writing of Your Whole Product -- Style -- Structure. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
"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.