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Title:
Intelligent research design a guide for beginning researchers in the social sciences
Author:
Hancké, Bob.
ISBN:
9780191570995

9780199570782

9780199570799
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 142 p.)
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;
Abstract:
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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