Practical Research: Planning and Design (9th Edition

by Paul D. Leedy, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod

For a wide variety of graduate or undergraduate research courses. Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text is a "do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself"; manual designed to help research students in any discipline understand the fundamental structure of quality research and the methodical process that leads to genuinely significant results. It guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Suited for the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-instruction, this text will show students two 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally.

Genres: Textbooks, Research, Nonfiction, Reference, Education, Research Methods, Science

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Vince]

There's some useful information here, but I didn't enjoy the authors' manner. I find it a bit questionable that a 2015 edition makes spreadsheets and word processors out to be more estoric than Grounding Theory, classifies online surveys as completely different to paper surveys, and treats the latter's very format-specific problems as universal and format-independent.

Don't get your hopes up for learning about quantitative research and analysis, either. The chapters about that are best summed up in the authors' own words: "Instead, we recommend you take a statistics class."

[Samantha Matherne]

My introduction to research methods course for my MILS degree required this book as reading and resource material. I learned a good bit from it, but as someone who does not intend to do much (if any) actual research studies, some of the content really dragged. Most chapters were very readable, though, and I do recommend this as a good resource to understand creating & conducting a researching study for beginners. The explanations of concepts found within have been helpful for me doing my assignments.

[Ally]

Before you ask, yes, I read this entire textbook. In one afternoon.

Before you question my sanity, I was bored. Like really bored.

I was only assigned Chapter 2 to read for my AP Research class. I decided heck, why don’t I just read the whole textbook? I don’t have anything better to do.

Then proceeded to read the entire textbook in 3 hours when I got home from school.

Was it interesting? Absolutely not.

I will admit it was helpful for my classes for school because most of them focus on this kind of stuff, and it gave me a better understanding of research design and methodology. The problem is that I already knew most of what it was teaching, so a lot of it felt like reading an extremely long explanation of things I had already learned. I have a test over basically everything this textbook taught in AP Statistics tomorrow so we’ll see how that goes…

So… useful? Ehh, sure, I guess. Interesting? No. Did I need to read the entire textbook? Absolutely not. Do I regret it? Maybe a little.

[Azrul Amri]

I think this book very nice

[Mert]

3/5 Stars (%61/100)

Used this book in one of my post-grad classes. It was useful in general and I liked the way it presented the information. It was organized good but there were some parts that we did not really need it at all. I don't really have much to say about this. It was okay.

[Limeminearia]

good textbook! it's engagingly written and clear.

[Lina]

i want to read it, can you let me know please how can i download it.

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[Ellen Deckinga]

For a textbook it was a good read. Had excellent details that supported my learning. Where the deficits lay is that they lack understanding of the use of technology in the field of research. The way the information is presented is as if using online sources, databases or word processing software is brand new to the field of research. Our students are better prepared to use technology in their research than what is presented in this text.

[Kayla]

This book was required in a class of mine during my graduate studies in psychology. It was well-written and easy to understand, which was important because it was an online class lacking instructional lectures.

[Monique]

So I must confess, I didn’t read the entire book but skimmed the chapters that I needed. This has outstanding research methods information.

[Elizabeth Pietzsch]

I would like to think that there is better literature that can help teach me basic research but, alas, this was a requirement for my grad program and I survived.

[Mehran Khurshid]

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Mehran

[daisy]

First few chapters were okay - it got boring after that.

[Kimberly Soesbee]

Read for my doctoral program. Contains clearly understandable information regarding different research methodologies. A bit outdated, but I bought a used copy for my class so I didn’t mind so much.

[Lee Ann]

Hahahhhh, gonna be one of those semesters. I'm totally "reading" every chapter of this book and not just skimming.................................

[Andrew]

I read the chapters that my course required and found it to be a pretty good reference for doing research and writing a report about research.

[Jamie]

If you have to read a textbook about conducting research, this is probably the best one you will find. This is the second textbook I have read which is authored (at least in part) by Jeanne Ellis Ormrod. I really like her style. It is personable enough to keep the text interesting while still maintaining a highly professional tone. By the end of a very long chapter on statistical analyses in quantitative research I actually understood purposes and functions of various equations, even though I've never had a course in statistics in my life. This is another textbook I will probably hold on to as a resource as I begin my action research courses next fall.

[Santosh Kalwar]

Very nice book about how to do research work, must for those who are pursuing their Phd studies.

[Michelle]

Very good book.. you learn a lot about the simple of things

[Mustofa]

Though to purchase the book! Anyone can help procuring such book?

[Muna]

perfect for research

[Holly]

Used this book for thesis research class, and it's very helpful. If only it would also write my thesis for me.

[Alexander Yakushev]

Remarkably easy for reading and understanding.

[Nokwanda]

Good book if a person want achieve their studies on masters and Doctorate

[Luís Branco]

It was a pleasurable reading and without doubting it is the best guide on research planning I ever came across.

[Jun Li]

good

[Lori]

Pretty dull material.

[Jackie Fairey]

This textbook was very informative, but also repetitive at times.

[Kim]

Read for my Research Methods class, Fall 2016.

[Serjious Tsiulinsky]

A guide, a helper, a phd starter toolkit, a supervisor replacement. Wise and straight to the point. Could not look for better.