There is no way to complete one′s education without encountering a research report. Navigating through the mysteries of reports is the subject of this helpful volume. The authors, presuming their readers have no special background in research, begin by introducing and framing the notion of reading research within a wider social context. Next, they offer insight on when to seek out research, locating and selecting the right reports, and how to help evaluate research for trustworthiness. A step-by-step reading of reports from both qualitative and quantitative studies follows, and the final chapters examine in greater detail the different types of research to be encountered and how to examine the research more critically.

Reading and Understanding Research

Politics & Social Sciences

Silverman, Stephen

Locke, Lawrence F.

Spirduso, Waneen W.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Previous editions of this best-selling book have helped over 100,000 students and professionals write effective proposals for dissertations and grants. The expanded Fourth Editionsuccessfully covers all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding. The authors update their previous work with: a discussion of the effects of new technologies and the Internet on the proposal process; a new chapter on funding for student research; a totally revised chapter on qualitative research; and two completely new specimen proposals. Clear, accessible and reader-friendly the book provides both practical advice for the would-be writer and lengthy examples that show how effective proposal writing can be done.

Science & Math

Silverman, Stephen J.

Spirduso, Waneen W. (Wyrick)

Research

Reference

Reading and Understanding Research, Second Edition is based on the notion that helping to demystify the process of consuming research will not only make for better students, but will help make for better research. The authors presume no special background in research, and begin by introducing and framing the notion of reading research within a wider social context. Next they offer insight on when to seek out research, locating and selecting the right reports, and how to help evaluate research for trustworthiness. A step-by-step reading of reports from qualitative and quantitative studies follows, and the final chapters examine in greater detail the different types of research to be encountered and how to examine the research more critically. This book is ideal for a novice researcher (and those that teach them!).

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Psychology & Counseling

Book by Locke, Lawrence F., Spirduso, Waneen W. (Wyrick), Silverman, Stephen J.

Education & Teaching

Studying & Workbooks

Proposals That Work is about how to prepare effective research proposals for graduate theses and dissertations. A major part of the book comments on specimen proposals from a number of social science disciplines. The second edition of this extremely successful guide gives a deeper coverage of the grants process and grant proposal writing, as well as an extra section on qualitative research proposals.

The Third Edition of this practical book confronts the problems of writing a research proposal successfully and is the ideal tool for launching students into writing proposals for theses, dissertations and grants, and through one of the major barriers to an academic career. Written in an accessible style, it provides both practical advice for the would-be writer and examples that show how effective proposal writing can be done. In this new edition the authors update their previous work with issues that have come to the forefront within the last five years. The book includes new chapters on ethics and verbal presentations; an expanded chapter on qualitative proposal writing; and updated sections on literature search,

Mental Health

Proposals that work: A guide for planning research

Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Reading and Understanding Research

Reading and Understanding Research

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Reading and Understanding Research

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Proposals that work: A guide for planning research