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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812143103321

Autore

Gournelos Ted <1979->

Titolo

Doing academic research [[electronic resource] ] : a practical guide to research methods and analysis / / Ted Gournelos, Joshua R. Hammonds, Maridath A. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, England ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

0-429-26355-4

0-429-55859-7

0-429-55412-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages) ; : illustrations

Disciplina

001.4

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Humanities - Research - Methodology

Business - Research - Methodology

Scholarly publishing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, glossary, and index.

Nota di contenuto

PART I: Get the party started right -- 1. Learn to love, not dread, research -- 2. Where do I start? -- 3. Now what do I do? What's a lit review? -- 4. Choosing a method -- PART II: Methodology overviews -- 5. Close textual and thematic analysis -- 6. Content and discourse analysis -- 7. Ethnography, interviews, and focus groups -- 8. Surveys -- 9. Observational methods in practice (participatory-action research, experimental research, theory, and metasynthesis) -- PART III: Data analysis and the final push -- 10. Analyzing qualitative data and making sense of detail -- 11. Analyzing quantitative data and making sense of numbers -- 12. Persuasion, presentation, and publication.