Writing Up Your Action Research Project

ISBN-13: 9781138828322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 206 str.

Jean McNiff

Opis

Students carrying out action research must learn how to be successful writers as well as researchers, and it is the disconnection between the two that "Writing up Your Action Research Project" will help readers to address and overcome. Through detailed and practical advice supported by real-life case study material from a range of countries and disciplines, this book will equip students with the skills they need to confidently communicate their action research in writing.

Written with a specific focus on action research, the book explains and models the process of producing writing that reflects the core action research principles such as critical reflection, emancipatory practices and resistance to closure. Critical reflection and analysis are also interwoven into the core fabric of the text, providing readers with the opportunity to consider critical questions within each chapter, inviting them to actively analyse their ideas and responses to the text. Divided into 4 distinctive parts, key focuses include:

• understanding writing practices;
• engaging with literature;
• how to write up a project report or dissertation;
• how writing is judged in terms of professional and writing practices;
• developing ideas for further study and publication.

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Writing up Your Action Research Project" is an essential text for practitioners on professional education and undergraduate courses who want their writing to reflect the excellent of their research and is the ideal companion to the author s book You and Your Action Research Project which is now in its third edition."

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Prologue: What do I need to know about action research? Why do I need to know it?  Part I: Designing and Planning Your Text  2. Getting ready to write: designing and planning  3. What goes into your text? How do you communicate with your reader?  4. Developing communicative competence: writing for a reader Part II: Writing and Producing a Text  5. Learning to be a writer: engaging with the literatures  6. Learning to produce a text: the writing process  7. How do I write an action research report or masters dissertation?  Part III: Reflecting and Evaluating  8. How is the quality of an action research text judged?  9. The significance of your writing  1.0 Where now?  References