Your Research Project : Designing, Planning, and Getting Started

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project.  The new edition of this bestselling book will help you: - Explain research theory within the context of your own project   - Curate, structure, and format your literature review - Anticipate the challenges of social media and web-based research - Apply ?how to? tips quickly to your own research planning and design - Monitor your progress in the field with checklists - Develop writing habits to use as a springboard for dissertations, reports, and articles - Build a foundation of practical, general research skills like time management, organization, and critical thinking to carry you beyond your project.   New to the 4th Edition: - New step-by-step chapter on how to write a successful research proposal  - New chapter 'Writing Strategies' offers guidelines for different assignments to help carry students beyond their research proposal - More ?How To? examples of literature reviews, proposals and ethics applications - Expanded coverage of literature review strategies - more emphasis on accessing on-line resources and use of the internet - Enhanced checklists of issues for consideration or tasks students should undertake in order to progress their work - More information surrounding online and social media research and implications on information sourcing, ethics, and methods  - Increased coverage of the research methods section to include more practical support and additional information on mixed-methods  - Further stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism with an expanded section on this topic.