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Blaxter, Loraine; Hughes, Christina; and Tight, Malcolm. How to Research, 4th edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2010.

How to Research, 4th edition

Authors: Loraine Blaxter, Christina Hughes and Malcolm Tight

Published:  September 2010 Pages: 400

eISBN: 9780335238699 | ISBN: 9780335238675
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  • Front cover
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of boxes
  • 1 All at sea but learning to swim
  • Introduction
  • The first time researcher
  • Getting a flavour of possibilities
  • Why am I doing this research?
  • Will I have anything new to say?
  • In whose interests is this research?
  • At last, writing up
  • How to use this book
  • What's different about this edition?
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 2 Getting started
  • Introduction
  • Choosing a topic
  • What to do if you can't think of a topic
  • Focusing
  • Finding and choosing your supervisor
  • Individual and group research
  • Researching in your workplace
  • Keeping your research diary
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 3 Thinking about methods
  • Introduction
  • Everyday research skills
  • Which method is best?
  • Families, approaches and techniques
  • Action research
  • Case studies
  • Experiments
  • Surveys
  • Which methods suit?
  • Deciding about methods
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 4 Reading for research
  • Introduction
  • Why read?
  • Coping with the research literature
  • Basic reading strategies
  • Using libraries
  • Using the internet
  • Good enough reading
  • Reading about method as well as subject
  • Recording your reading
  • The literature review
  • Issues in reading
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 5 Managing your project
  • Introduction
  • Managing time
  • Mapping your project
  • Piloting
  • Dealing with key figures and institutions
  • Sharing responsibility
  • Using computers
  • Managing not to get demoralized when things do not go as planned
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 6 Preparing to collect data
  • Introduction
  • Access and ethical issues
  • Sampling and selection
  • Recording your progress
  • The ups and downs of data collection
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 7 Collecting data
  • Introduction
  • Applying techniques for collecting data
  • Documents
  • Interviews
  • Observations
  • Questionnaires
  • Mixed methodologies
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 8 Preparing to analyse data
  • Introduction
  • The shape of your data
  • The nature of data
  • Managing your data
  • Computer-based data management and analysis
  • The process of analysis
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 9 Analysing your data
  • Introduction
  • Analytical strategies
  • Analysing documents
  • Analysing interviews
  • Analysing observations
  • Analysing questionnaires
  • Interpretation
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 10 Writing up
  • Introduction
  • Drafting and redrafting
  • How to argue
  • How to criticize
  • Who am I writing for?
  • Grammar, referencing and plagiarism
  • Using tables, diagrams and other illustrations
  • Panics
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • 11 Finishing off
  • Introduction
  • Planning to finish?
  • The penultimate and final drafts
  • Added extras
  • The process of assessment
  • What do I do now?
  • Summary
  • Exercise
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Index
  • Back cover