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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:Practical Research Planning & Designby Paul D Leedy
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Written in uncommonly engaging, lucid, and elegant prose, this book is an “understand-it-yourself, do-it-yourself” manual designed to help readers 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 to study, 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. This book will show readers two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally. For researchers and research analysts in any discipline. Synopsis:Written in uncommonly engaging, lucid, and elegant prose, this book is an understand-it-yourself, do-it-yourself manual designed to help readers 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 to study, 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. This book will show readers two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally. For researchers and research analysts in any discipline. Table of Contents I. THE FUNDAMENTALS. 1. What Is Research?
2. Tools of Research.
II. FOCUSING YOUR RESEARCH EFFORTS. 3. The Problem: The Heart of the Research Process.
4. Review of the Related Literature.
5. Planning Your Research Project.
6. Writing the Research Proposal.
III. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES. 7. Qualitative Research.
8. Historical Research.
IV. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES. 9. Descriptive Research.
10. Experimental and Ex Post Facto Designs.
11. Statistical Techniques for Analyzing Quantitative Data.
V. PREPARING THE RESEARCH REPORT. 12. Technical Details: Style, Format, and Organization of the Research Report.
Appendix A: Using SPSS.
References.
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