Planning Your Postgraduate Research

ISBN-13: 9781137427342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str.

Margaret Walshaw

Opis

This book provides researchers with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully accomplish milestones during the early stages of research activity. Specifically, it assists researchers in developing a skill set that includes developing a research question, writing the literature review, choosing a methodology, and creating a research proposal.

Recenzje

' Planning Your Postgraduate Research provides readers with constructive and helpful guidance on the crucial early stages of undertaking research. Margaret Walshaw's book hits all the right notes in covering how to select a question, conduct a literature review, choose a research methodology, and provides useful guidance on how to manage one's time effectively.' - Kristen Williams, Clark University, USA

'A most welcome book, which explores and explains all of the different elements, theoretical and empirical, academic and personal, that are necessary for the successful completion of postgraduate research.' - Suzanne McDonald-Walker, Northampton University, UK

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introducing Research 2. Selecting a Topic, Formulating a Research Question, and Developing a Conceptual Framework 3. Gathering and Evaluating Relevant Literature 4. Writing the Literature Review 5. Defining a Research Methodology 6. Creating a Research Proposal 7. Looking Ahead to Next Steps References Index.

O autorze

Margaret Walshaw is Coordinator of the Professional Doctoral programme and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education at Massey University, New Zealand. She is the author of Getting to Grips with Doctoral Research.