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Your Research Project: Designing, Planning, and Getting Started
Contributor(s): Walliman, Nicholas Stephen Robert (Author)
ISBN: 1526441209     ISBN-13: 9781526441201
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $49.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Methodology
- Social Science | Statistics
- Social Science | Research
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.2" W x 9.1" (1.75 lbs) 416 pages
 
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With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project. The new edition of this bestselling book will help you:

- Explain research theory within the context of your own project

- Curate, structure, and format your literature review

- Anticipate the challenges of social media and web-based research

- Apply 'how to' tips quickly to your own research planning and design

- Monitor your progress in the field with checklists

- Develop writing habits to use as a springboard for dissertations, reports, and articles

- Build a foundation of practical, general research skills like time management, organization, and critical thinking to carry you beyond your project.

New to the 4th Edition

- New step-by-step chapter on how to write a successful research proposal

- New chapter ′Writing Strategies′ offers guidelines for different assignments to help carry students beyond their research proposal

- More 'How To' examples of literature reviews, proposals and ethics applications

- Expanded coverage of literature review strategies - more emphasis on accessing on-line resources and use of the internet

- Enhanced checklists of issues for consideration or tasks students should undertake in order to progress their work

- More information surrounding online and social media research and implications on information sourcing, ethics, and methods

- Increased coverage of the research methods section to include more practical support and additional information on mixed-methods

- Further stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism with an expanded section on this topic.

Contributor Bio(s): Walliman, Nicholas: - Nicholas Walliman is a qualified architect and Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University and a researcher associate in the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. After many years of practice in architecture in the UK and abroad, he returned to academic life to do his PhD. This experience raised his interest in research theory and methods, and he was subsequently asked by the university to write a distance learning course to guide postgraduate students embarking on research degrees. This course provided the raw material and incentive for writing this book. He has subsequently published several other books on research theory and methods for students and practitioners at various levels of expertise. He is currently conducting research with a team of architects and environmental scientists as part of the Oxford Brookes Institute for Sustainable Development. They are engaged in nationally and internationally funded projects on a range of aspects of building technology, such as energy saving building envelope design, mitigation of the effects of floods on buildings and advanced construction methods. He has published numerous research papers on aspects of architectural technology. He is also supervising several PhD and Masters students. Despite this emphasis on science and technology, his work with research students covers many other aspects of architecture and its relationship to society, such as vernacular architecture, the effects of westernisation, architectural education, conservation, administration and sustainable design.