Tells about doing a PhD - what it's really like and how to come through it with a happy ending. This book covers various things such as: what a PhD is really about, and how to do one well; the unwritten rules of research and of academic writing; and, how academic careers really work.

How to plan, draft, write and finish a Doctorial Dissertation.

Rubin (Kent State University) acquaints students with communication research and the vast array of information sources available in the field. She overviews the steps for beginning communication research, and describes online and published sources, accessible through most medium-sized college and university libraries, that will be useful for

Drawing from a wealth of illustrative research examples and applications, introduces techniques of collecting, focusing and analysing data in a step by step manner. A field manual for any student doing social science fieldwork.

Introduces students to social science research from the consumer's point of view. This book focuses on the elements common to the various kinds of social science research, such as experimental, survey, and case study. Questions to Ask, found at the end of each chapter, offer a presentation of the general principles in social science research.

This work examines the fundamentals of solving a scientific research problem and the research design. This edition includes references to computer statistical software and higher order multivariate statistics.

Educational Research: An Introduction, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive and widely respected text for scholars and for the preparation of graduate-level students who need to understand educational research in depth and conduct original research for a dissertation or thesis. A comprehensive introduction to the major research methods and types of data analysis used today, this text ...

With greater coverage of designs and analyses of data, more up-to-date articles, more articles to critique without help (but answers provided), and a glossary of all technical, relevant terms, the Second Edition will help researchers reach a decision about any conclusion reported in a research article.

A guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level. This book takes the student through the stages necessary to complete their research and write a successful dissertation. It includes sections on choosing a topic, research design, methodology and presenting data and writing up.

The gap between designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. This book helps you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created.

Begins with an in-depth look at search engines and other online tools, such as browsers. This title describes several principles of Web searching to help you leverage the scope of the Internet to discover information. It also covers specific topic areas of Internet searching, both domestically and internationally.

Presents heuristic methodology as a systematic form of research. The author illustrates how heuristic concepts and processes form components of the research design and explains how heuristic inquiry works in practice. The process of conducting a human science investigation is described.

Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

Enormous expanses of the Internet are unreachable with standard web search engines. This book provides the key to finding these hidden resources by identifying how to uncover and use invisible web resources. Mapping the invisible Web, when and how to use it, assessing the validity of the information, and the future of Web searching are topics covered in detail. Only 16 percent of Net-based ...

Offering the advice, insights, experiences, and encouragement would-be Internet entrepreneurs need to establish a successful independent research business, this book provides an insider's view of Internet businesses and their unique services. Eleven entrepreneurial super searchers representing a broad range of topic specialities and business focuses are interviewed. Also discussed are the details

Describes how health care research has been influenced by positivistic and interpretative approaches, and how it has been challenged by postmodernist philosophies. This book demonstrates how the different philosophical bases to research impact in real-life health care work and research.

A call by an indigenous researcher for the decolonizing of research methods, which critically examines the historical and philosophical base of Western research. The book provides a literature which validates frustrations with various Western paradigms, academic traditions and methodologies.

Part of a series presenting scholarly thinking about research and concepts related to the transformation of organizations. The papers presented in Volume 14 address practical, conceptual and methodological issues in the field of organizational change.