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Informationen zum Autor Colin Robson is Emeritus Professor of the School of Human and Health Sciences, Huddersfield University. From 1996-2007 he was chief consultant to the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation project on the development of statistics and indicators on the performance of national systems for the education of children with disabilities, learning and behaviour difficulties, and social disadvantages. He has recently completed a consultancy to a follow-up project funded by Eurostat. He is the author of the best-selling Real World Research. Klappentext In How to Do a Research Project , Colin Robson has created an essential tool for students. Written specifically to address the needs and concerns of the undergraduate, this tightly focused volume guides students through the process of conducting and completing a research project. Friendly and accessible, this fully-updated second edition includes a number of accompanying student support materials to aid students further. Closely integrated sets of end-of-chapter tasks covering all aspects of research projects from design to completion, as well as suggested further reading, enhance each chapter. A wide range of additional helpful materials relevant to particular subject areas is also available on the accompanying website at www.wiley.com/college/robson . This textbook is an invaluable resource for students in a wide range of disciplines and fields of study, particularly those planning to use social research methods or to carry out a library-based study, for their undergraduate research project. Zusammenfassung Written specifically to address the needs and concerns of the undergraduate! this tightly focused second edition guides students through the process of conducting and completing a research project. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Part I - Making Preparations 5 1 Preliminaries 9 Recognizing Realities 9 A serious warning 10 Making it Worthwhile 10 Considering Your Audience(s) 11 Individual or Group Research? 12 Types of group research 12 Support groups 13 Planning Your Project 14 Doing it 15 The Structure of the Book 15 End of Chapter Tasks 16 Further Reading 17 Chapter 1 Tasks 17 2 Using Social Research Methods 19 A Concern for the Truth 19 Different Purposes of Research 20 Description 21 Exploration 21 Explanation 21 Emancipation 21 Research Design 22 Flexible designs 23 Fixed designs 23 Qualitative and quantitative data collection 23 Demands on Researchers 23 Different Approaches to Doing Social Research 24 'Library' studies 32 Examples from Undergraduate Projects 32 Methods of Collecting Data 32 Examples from Undergraduate Projects 46 Using More Than One Method 53 Mixed Method Designs 53 Data Collection Methods Used in Different Approaches 54 Trustworthiness and Credibility 54 Reliability 54 Validity 56 Research Arguments 56 Further Reading 57 Chapter 2 Tasks 57 3 Developing Your Ideas 59 Selecting a Topic 59 Researching internet topics 62 Research topics to avoid 62 Replication research 62 From a Topic to Research Questions 63 From Research Questions to a Research Design 63 One research question or several? 65 Do I really need research questions? 65 Hypotheses 66 Developing the Design 67 Finding and Using Sources 67 Planning the search for sources 68 Key word searching 68 Internet searching 69 Library searching 70 Dealing with the sources 71 Getting an Overal...
