How to do your research project: a guide for students
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| adam_text | Titel: How to do your research project
Autor: Thomas, Gary
Jahr: 2017
CONTENTS
About the author
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the companion website
How to use this book
1 STARTING POINTS: YOUR
INTRODUCTION
Question: Where do I begin? Answer: Begin at the beginning, with an introduction
Who cares? What is the point of this research?
Thinking of a research idea
Purposes of research
Moving on to research questions
Kinds of question - and some nutshell-sized studies and their implications
Does your question demand a descriptive or an explanatory answer?
A research question - or a hypothesis?
Coming up with a question
is it feasible? Problems with research questions
Prima facie questions
Kinds of evidence and kinds of answer
A title
What research is - and what it isn t
Overview
Further reading
Checklist
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2 PREPARING: PROJECT MANAGEMENT,
ETHICS AND GETTING CLEARANCE 27
Understanding the structure of your dissertation or thesis 28
Drawing a timeline 30
Just look at those fingernails! Time management 32
Stresses in doing research 34
Working with your supervisor 38
The importance of being ethical 38
Getting clearance - ethical review 48
What to think about in considering ethics 44
Access 51
Overview 53
Further reading 53
Checklist 55
3 THE LITERATURE REVIEW 57
Primary and secondary sources 58
Quality of sources 62
Your literature review should tell a story - it should not be a list 62
Making it a story 64
Speed reading and taking notes 66
Critical awareness: be your own Jeremy Paxman 68
Click on Search : finding information 70
Reference managers 80
Hints on searching - separating the wheat from the chaff 80
Understanding how sources are cited - the Harvard referencing system 83
Taking notes and quotes 85
Overview 87
Further reading 87
Checklist 89
4 DECIDE ON YOUR QUESTION - AGAIN 91
Seeing the wood for the trees 92
From storyboard to storyline 92
Your final question 97
Theory 97
Overview 100
Further reading 101
Checklist 102
5 METHODOLOGY PART T: DECIDING
ON AN APPROACH 103
Research design 104
Research approach 105
Frameworks for thinking about the social world - paradigms 106
Paradigms and research approach 113
From purposes, to questions, to approaches, to data gathering 128
Overview 133
Further reading 134
Checklist 136
6 METHODOLOGY PART 2: THE DES FRAME IGN 137
What is research design? 138
Some general issues in design 140
Sampling 141
Variables 144
Reliability 144
Validity 145
Experimenter effects 148
Generalisation and generalisability 150
Positionality 152
Triangulation 152
The design frames 154
Action research 154
Case study 156
Ethnography 163
Ethnomethodology 166
Evaluation 168
Experiment 169
Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies - and surveys 176
Comparative study 183
No design frame 186
Can I mix design frames and methods? 188
Postmodernism 189
How to structure and write your methodology chapter 192
Overview 192
Further reading 194
Checklist 197
7 THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB:
DATA GATHERING 199
Tools and methods 200
Be creative 201
Data-gathering tools - mainly for use with words 202
Interviews 202
Accounts 208
Diaries 208
Group interviews and focus groups 212
Document interrogation 214
Using social media to gather data and to collaborate with
other researchers and participants 216
Data-gathering tools - for use with words and/or numbers 217
Questionnaires 217
Observation 226
Gathering image-based data 232
Data-gathering tools - mainly for use with numbers 233
Measurements and tests 234
Official statistics 235
Overview 238
Further reading 238
Checklist 241
8 HOW TO ANALYSE AND DISCUSS
THE INFORMATION YOU GATHER 243
Analysing words 244
Coding and constant comparative method 244
Network analysis 245
Construct mapping and theme mapping 246
Grounded theory 248
Thick description 250
Discourse and content analysis 251
Computers and verbal data analysis 252
Sociograms 254
In-betweenies: words to numbers and developing a coding frame 257
Analysing numbers 258
Kinds of numbers 259
Eyeballing 260
Using Excel to do your data analysis 260
Statistics that describe 260
Statistics that help you understand a relationship between two variables 266
Statistics that help you to deduce (or infer) 268
Discussing your analysis 281
Organising your discussion - alongside or after the analysis? 282
Synthesis vs analysis 284
Drawing out theory 286
Overview 290
Further reading 291
Checklist 293
9 CONCLUDING AND WRITING UP 295
Writing a conclusion 296
Writing up 298
Writing an abstract and finalising the title 299
The final shape 300
General points about writing and presentation 302
Communicating your findings 302
The territory of your writing 302
Finding your voice 302
Writers guidance for writers 304
Non-sexist and non-discriminatory writing 306
Presentation 306
Other points 307
Coda 308
Further reading 308
Checklist 310
Appendix: Critical values for chi-square 311
Glossary 313
References 327
Index 333
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