Research design

Description:

This book addresses these issues by providing a guide to major design decisions, such as deciding a paradigm, stating a purpose for the study, identifying the research questions and hypotheses, using theory, and defining and stating the significance of the study. Each chapter is organized to first present the principles about composing and writing qualitative and quantitative approaches followed by specific examples from journal articles and dissertations from a variety of fields within the social and human sciences. Each chapter concludes with writing exercises that relate back to these formats so that the reader can end the book with a written plan for a scholarly study. Research Design is aimed at upper division to graduate level research methods courses that are taught to prepare students to plan and write up independent research studies.

subjects: Statistical methods,  Research,  Methodology,  Social sciences,  Social sciences - research - methodology,  Social sciences - statistical methods,  Social sciences, research,  Social sciences, methodology,  Social sciences, statistical methods,  Research Design,  Statistics as Topic,  Méthode statistique,  Sciences sociales,  Méthodologie de recherche,  Recherche qualitative,  Recherche quantitative,  Social sciences--research--methodology,  Social sciences--statistical methods,  Social sciences--methods,  Sciences sociales--recherche--méthodologie,  Sciences sociales--méthodes statistiques,  Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek,  Onderzoeksontwerp,  Pesquisa qualitativa (métodos estatísticos),  Pesquisa quantitativa,  Ciências sociais,  H62 .c6963 2003,  H 62 c923r 2003,  300/.7/2,  70.03,  Statistics,  H62 .c6963 1994,  H 62 c923r 1994,  300/.72,  Social work,  Social sciences -> social work -> introduction to social work/welfare,  Social sciences -> sociology -> research methods & statistics