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Planning Research: A Concise Guide for the Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences
This concise yet comprehensive guide describes in detail a successful method for planning and writing about proposed research and management projects. Intended for use by a wide variety of individuals in life sciences and environmental sciences and management, the volume offers indispensable, step-by-step advice for any student or professional undertaking a research project.
John C. Gordon focuses first on the importance of thinking carefully and writing down a research plan, describing each component of such a plan and explaining why it is important. In subsequent chapters he shows how to describe research or management problems, how to write clear objectives, the importance of the hypothesis, how to deal with schedules and budgets, how to communicate completed plans, and how to prepare grant applications. Gordon concludes with an insightful chapter on the social significance of scientific research.
John C. Gordon focuses first on the importance of thinking carefully and writing down a research plan, describing each component of such a plan and explaining why it is important. In subsequent chapters he shows how to describe research or management problems, how to write clear objectives, the importance of the hypothesis, how to deal with schedules and budgets, how to communicate completed plans, and how to prepare grant applications. Gordon concludes with an insightful chapter on the social significance of scientific research.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2007
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August 21, 2013
This excellent little book is one I turn to again and again with each new science project I do.
The 8 chapters are: 1 The Importance of Written Plans, 2 Scientific Method, 3 Useful Views of Science, 4 Stating Problems and Objectives Clearly, 5 Creating Hypotheses and Models, 6 Designing Experiments, 7 Communicating Study Plans, 8 Understanding the Role of Science.
The author has studied and lectured to students on 'Writing Study Plans' for several decades in Yale, one of the top universities in the United States. His experience in Planning Research shines through in the crystal clear logic of his advice and the elegant organisation of science that he proposes that students adopt.
The 8 chapters are: 1 The Importance of Written Plans, 2 Scientific Method, 3 Useful Views of Science, 4 Stating Problems and Objectives Clearly, 5 Creating Hypotheses and Models, 6 Designing Experiments, 7 Communicating Study Plans, 8 Understanding the Role of Science.
The author has studied and lectured to students on 'Writing Study Plans' for several decades in Yale, one of the top universities in the United States. His experience in Planning Research shines through in the crystal clear logic of his advice and the elegant organisation of science that he proposes that students adopt.
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