For over twenty-five years, this book has guided student writers through the struggles that come with writing dissertations and theses. It offers guidance to students through all the essential steps, including defining topics, selecting faculty advisors, and conducting, analysing, writing, presenting, and publishing research.
Provides a step-by-step description of how to use critical-constructivist grounded theory methods. This flexible approach can aid researchers in investigating topics within psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural contexts.
In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyses language at both the micro and macro levels. Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts.
Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both conceptual and technical aspects of practice in a friendly, conversational style. She focuses not just on ......
Build Me the Evidence features innovative thinking from leaders across policy, philanthropy, research, and practice on how to build a stronger, more equitable data and evidence ecosystem.
This innovative book introduces China on its own terms by explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world. Creating a cultural cartography through both text and image, the authors provide readers with a vivid sense of what is uniquely Chinese about China.
Leading authorities describe established and emerging methodologies, review the types of questions they are suited to address, and identify standards for quality. Key issues in research design are accessibly discussed.
Offers a no-nonsense, step-by-step approach to qualitative research in psychology and related fields, presenting principles for using a generic approach to descriptive-interpretive qualitative research. The authors offer an overarching framework of best research practices common to a wide range of approaches.
Provides an introduction to conversation analysis, a qualitative approach that examines the actions and interactions that take place in face-to-face conversations, phone calls, texts, and various forms of media. Conversation analysis details how people interact, adjusting their behaviour accordingly, and attentiveness to one another.
