reference Very nice book about how to do research work, must for those who are pursuing their Phd studies.
This textbook was very informative, but also repetitive at times, perfect for research Very interesting Remarkably easy for reading and understanding, /Stars/
Used this book in one of my postgrad 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. 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, Incredibly useful. Brain was turned to mush, Read for my Research Methods class, Fall, So I must confess, I didnt read the entire book but skimmed the chapters that I needed, This has outstanding research methods information, good textbook! it's engagingly written and clear, A guide, a helper, a phd starter toolkit, a supervisor replacement, Wise and straight to the point, Could not look for better, Hahahhhh, gonna be one of those semesters, I'm totally "reading" every chapter of this book and not just skimming, . . It was a pleasurable reading and without doubting it is the best guide on research planning I ever came across.
There's some useful information here, but I didn't enjoy the authors' manner, I find it a bit questionable that aedition 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 formatspecific problems as universal and formatindependent.
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.
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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.
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.
This book was required in a class of mine during my graduate studies in psychology, It was wellwritten and easy to understand, which was important because it was an online class lacking instructional lectures.
Used this book for thesis research class, and it's very helpful, If only it would also write my thesis for me, Helpful Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text is a 'doityourself, understandityourself' 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.
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