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Intelligent research design : a guide for beginning researchers in the social sciences / Bob Hancké.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 142 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191570995
  • 0191570990
  • 9780199570782
  • 0199570787
  • 9780199570799
  • 0199570795
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intelligent research design.DDC classification:
  • 300.72 22
LOC classification:
  • H62 .H244 2009eb
Other classification:
  • 70.03
Online resources:
Contents:
PREFACE; LIST OF TABLES; Introduction; 1 Research in the Social Sciences; 2 Constructing a Research Design; 3 Constructing Case Studies and Comparisons; 4 Constructing Data; 5 Writing Up Your Research; 6 For the Road; Appendix: Participating in the Profession; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary: This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research. Based on a decade of teaching early-stage researchers in the social sciences at the LSE and other universities, and written with the central problems of beginning researchers in mind, Bob Hanck--eacute--; guides them through the process of thinking about the links between theory, cases and data, and to do so in a way that helps to turn their initialplausible ideas into convincing arguments. This lively book, deliberately jargon-free and with a hands-on, pragmatic.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142) and index.

PREFACE; LIST OF TABLES; Introduction; 1 Research in the Social Sciences; 2 Constructing a Research Design; 3 Constructing Case Studies and Comparisons; 4 Constructing Data; 5 Writing Up Your Research; 6 For the Road; Appendix: Participating in the Profession; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research. Based on a decade of teaching early-stage researchers in the social sciences at the LSE and other universities, and written with the central problems of beginning researchers in mind, Bob Hanck--eacute--; guides them through the process of thinking about the links between theory, cases and data, and to do so in a way that helps to turn their initialplausible ideas into convincing arguments. This lively book, deliberately jargon-free and with a hands-on, pragmatic.

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