This volume takes students step-by-step through all stages of research including choosing the problem, the literature search, the nuts and bolts of research protocol, research ethics and the publication process. Increased coverage of survey research and non-experimental methods in this edition allows the instructor flexibility, while updated research examples and end-of-chapter material get students actively involved in research methodology. Throughout the text, the author aims to help students avoid the kinds of pitfalls they are likely to encounter when they are conducting their own research. "Reading Between the Lines" sections at the end of each chapter give students practice in critically evaluating published research studies. Actual case studies in every chapter, written especially for this book, require students to solve problems of design. "Nuts and Bolts" sections in every chapter give students practical advice.
- ISBN10 0534577652
- ISBN13 9780534577650
- Publish Date 25 July 2000 (first published 15 December 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 5th Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English