Find Your Source

A Super Quick guide to finding and assessing good sources for your research assignment or project.

Sommario

What is a source?
How do I know if it's a good source?
How are primary and secondary sources different?
Where do I go online to search?
What's the point of the library?
What's a database? And why is it good for me?
Where do I find stuff that's not in the big databases?
Who will help me?
Why can't find I anything?

Info autore

Gary Thomas is an emeritus professor of education at the University of Birmingham. His teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education, and research methodology in education, with a particular focus on case study. He has conducted research funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Education, Barnardos, local authorities, and a range of other organisations. He has coedited the British Educational Research Journal and is currently an executive editor of Educational Review. He is author of many books, most recently Education: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press.

Riassunto

A Super Quick guide to finding and assessing good sources for your research assignment or project.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gary Thomas, Thomas Gary
• Con la collaborazione di: Gary Thomas (Editore)
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781526488831
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-8883-1
• Pagine: 108
• Serie: Super Quick Skills; Super Quick Skills
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Libri scolastici per istituti a indirizzo generale; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Scienze della comunicazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; STUDY AIDS / Study Guides, EDUCATION / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Study & learning skills: general, Study and learning skills: general, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology