With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government--learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sourc...

This is a complete social worker's guide to undertaking qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research.

Written with those with limited mathematical and statistical knowledge in mind, this concise and practical guide helps researchers to do their research in new and alternative ways.

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Providing readers with an introduction to how to conduct a research synthesis of literature, this Fifth Edition has new material on the use of the internet and other new developments in technology, including new statistics for describing meta-analytic results

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This practical book uses a step-by-step analysis of realistic examples to help students understand the theory and code for implementing propensity score analysis with the R statistical language.

Ideal for those new to teaching Research Methods, as well as more experienced instructors looking for new ways to engage their students, this applied resource places 100 activities - each accompanied by tutor notes and students handouts (also downloadable) - right at the instructor's fingertips.

With a strong focus on using less traditional forms of data, the Third Edition provides a new perspective on issues such as the role of the researcher and the impact they have on data, and also considers the impact of social, cultural and political complexities across a range of disciplines.

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