The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project

by Zina O'Leary

The ultimate companion to successfully completing your research project, the author guides you through a step-by-step approach to research and provides all of the skills and momentum you need to excel. Each stage of a project is clearly set out with best practice highlighted alongside pragmatic advice for tackling research in the real world.

The Third Edition uses multidisciplinary case studies, and examples from the author’s own experience, to answer your questions and support your progress as you move smoothly through each stage. With a new chapter on mixed methods approaches, more on disseminating research, more on the practical and legal implications of ethics and more international examples, the book is packed full of learning features and tools to support your journey,

A fully-developed website with podcasts, videos, journal articles and examples of real projects Activities and worksheets to help you organize your time Learning objectives to sustain your momentum Top tips relating to key research skills Full glossary to test understanding and provide definitions Annotated further reading to help you move through the literature ‘Excuse me, I have a question!’ feature to answer common questions. Warm, innovative and clever, this book is packed full of must-have information for anyone doing a research project.

Genres: Research, Nonfiction

414 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 21, 2009

Reviews

[Rebekah McCann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has a lot of good advice and it helped me feel more prepared to do research for the first time. I only wish it had been marketed as having a slight focus on the social sciences rather than STEM and other areas of research. As a physics student, a good amount of this book was not applicable to me and I wish I'd at least been warned of that ahead of time. It was still very helpful in a broad sense, though.

[Isaac · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want an easy insight into the mind of the modern, secular, university level research, then this is a good place to start. That's a pretty specific use though...

For researchers... the average secular westerner will gobble it up, the thoughtful Christian will glean some things that are of benefit.

Note: have only dipped in here and there, not read right through.

[Rach · Rating 4 out of 5]

I forgot I read this for my Intro to Research in Education class this semester for my Master's program. It's a pretty solid read considering it's a textbook and textbooks are usually boring. 4/5 - I learned a lot and it helped me with my assignments.

[Taylor Hall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear writing, and great examples. It got me started and motivated to finish my proposal. I read it out of order, per the recommendation from my advisor. A pretty fast read for such a large book.

[Jazmine the illustrator · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a textbook

[Claire Melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful but pretty boring and I hated the simplified style.

[Sabrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is by far the best research reference book I have read. It is clear, easy to understand, and provides a lot of useful examples and further readings.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

What has Mark Twain with research projects in the 21th century? Nothing. It has everything to do with appeasing the author's need to be an erudite. Otherwise it is not about practical research, the thing that brought people Nuclear Power or the Voyage to the Moon. It is about the petty means of scamming a pay from the University by the academic bureaucrats. What I have appreciated most is the bluntness and total lack of refinement of the author: "Offer a pathway for gaining academic qualifications or getting a raise".