Product Description

Learn Techniques to Find the Information You Need

This revised third edition delivers invaluable guidance on how to collect data, write proposals, and make presentations. Offering you step-by-step techniques for the most efficient and focused research in school or work projects, How to Research includes hands-on exercises that build up skills and strengthen research techniques useful for any project, in any field.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41360 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Lorraine Blaxter and Christina Hughes are based at the University of Warwick. Lorraine Blaxter is a lecturer in the School of Health and Social Studies and Christina Hughes is a reader in Sociology.

Malcolm Tight is a professor in teh Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University.

Customer Reviews

Direct, practical guide to research in the social sciences.
I used this book while completing university studies and found it's direct writing style and practical approach to doing research in the social sciences of great benefit. Of particular value was the way the text was broken up with the use of Boxes, Exercises and Hints and Tips, offering succint advice relating to aspects of the research process, and providing opportunities to test knowledge gained of researching. The book covers all facets and steps involved in conducting a research project, from devising a research topic to publishing results of research. The publication date of the book (1996) does mean that some of the information in it is slightly outdated, the Internet for example is only referred to in passing as a new, developing database, but it would still remain highly useful to anyone who is just starting to undertake research at a university level, or to further develop existing skills and knowledge of researching. Relatively light on theory and very strong on the practicalities of research, highly recommended.