An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing: Practical Skills for Social Science Students

✍ Scribed by Bruce Oliver Newsome

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing by Bruce Oliver Newsome is an accessible guide that walks readers through the process of completing a social science project. Written specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate research classes, it introduces students to a complete skill set, including: planning, design, analysis, argumentation, criticizing theories, building theories, modeling theories, choosing methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing the final product. Students can use this text as a practical resource to navigate through each stage of the process, including choices between more advanced research techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING-FRONT COVER
AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1- THE WAY AHEAD
CHAPTER 2- THE RESEARCH PROCESS
CHAPTER 3- RESEARCH ETHICS AND LAWS
CHAPTER 4- SCOPING, JUSTIFYING, DESIGNING, AND PLANNING
CHAPTER 5- READING AND REVIEWING
CHAPTER 6- ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 7- ARGUING AND EXPLAINING
CHAPTER 8- THEORIZING AND MODELING
CHAPTER 9- METHODS
CHAPTER 10- EVIDENCE AND DATA
CHAPTER 11- WRITING
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
INDEX