Empirical Research And Writing

Author : Leanne C. Powner
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483370668

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Empirical Research and Writing by Leanne C. Powner Pdf

Students can easily misstep when they first begin to do research. Leanne C. Powner’s new title Empirical Research and Writing: A Student′s Practical Guide provides valuable advice and guidance on conducting and writing about empirical research. Chapter by chapter, students are guided through the key steps in the research process. Written in a lively and engaging manner and with a dose of humor, this practical text shows students exactly how to choose a research topic, conduct a literature review, make research design decisions, collect and analyze data, and then write up and present the results. The book′s approachable style and just-in-time information delivery make it a text students will want to read, and its wide-ranging and surprisingly sophisticated coverage will make it an important resource for their later coursework.

Author : Melisa C. Galvan,Fred Pyrczak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351968621

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Writing Empirical Research Reports by Melisa C. Galvan,Fred Pyrczak Pdf

• Designed for students who will be writing research proposals, reports, theses, and dissertations. • The 15 chapters cover 191 guidelines for effective scientific writing. The guidelines are fully illustrated with easy-to-follow examples. • The guidelines describe the types of information that should be included, how this information should be expressed, and where various types of information should be placed within a research report. • End-of-chapter questions help students master the writing process.

Author : Mary Sue MacNealy
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : 0205272533

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Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing by Mary Sue MacNealy Pdf

Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing is a particularly accessible approach to both qualitative and quantitative empirical research methods, helping novices appreciate the value of empirical research in writing while easing their fears about the research process. This comprehensive book covers research methods ranging from traditional experiments to newer practices such as focus groups, using graphics and real-life examples to clarify concepts. Readers do not need a scientific background to understand the issues involved, and they will find this book non-threatening. Though Strategies is friendly and even humorous in tone, it takes research in writing seriously, advocating rigorous design and implementation of empirical research projects to establish credible findings. This book introduces readers to methods and strategies for research and provides them with enough knowledge to become discerning, confident consumers of research in writing. Topics covered include: library research, empirical methodology, quantitative research, experimental research, surveys, focus groups, ethnographies, and much more. Anyone (novice or guru) who needs to perform statistically valid research.

Author : Mildred L. Patten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351968447

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Proposing Empirical Research by Mildred L. Patten Pdf

• Provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research proposal in the social and behavioral sciences. • Each major section is divided into short topics. For each topic, students complete an exercise that leads them toward the goal of preparing a proposal. • Numerous examples throughout the book make the recommendations for proposal writing come alive. • The model proposals at the end of the book illustrate proposal writing and provide material for classroom discussions. • Provides concrete guidance for students who will be writing proposals for both quantitative and qualitative research. • The structure of this book enables students to work independently with confidence while writing the first drafts of their proposals. • All steps in proposal writing are clearly described and illustrated. • Ideal for use in: · research methods classes where students write a proposal as a term project, · thesis/dissertation preparation classes, · senior research seminars where proposing and conducting research is a culminating undergraduate activity, and · any graduate-level seminar in which the instructor wants to incorporate a project that will engage students in critical thinking about the content area. • Written by our best-selling author, Mildred L. Patten. Your students will appreciate her clear and informative style.

Author : John R. Hayes,Richard E. Young,Michele L. Matchett,Maggie McCaffrey,Cynthia Cochran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135441142

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Reading Empirical Research Studies by John R. Hayes,Richard E. Young,Michele L. Matchett,Maggie McCaffrey,Cynthia Cochran Pdf

For the most part, those who teach writing and administer writing programs do not conduct research on writing. Perhaps more significantly, they do not often read the research done by others because effective reading of articles on empirical research requires special knowledge and abilities. By and large, those responsible for maintaining and improving writing instruction cannot -- without further training -- access work that could help them carry out their responsibilities more effectively. This book is designed as a text in graduate programs that offer instruction in rhetoric and composition. Its primary educational purposes are: * to provide models and critical methods designed to improve the reading of scientific discourse * to provide models of effective research designs and projects appropriate to those learning to do empirical research in rhetoric. Aiming to cultivate new attitudes toward empirical research, this volume encourages an appreciation of the rhetorical tradition that informs the production and critical reading of empirical studies. The book should also reinforce a slowly growing realization in English studies that empirical methods are not inherently alien to the humanities, rather that methods extend the power of humanist researchers trying to solve the problems of their discipline.

Author : (Kathy) Ling Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789813292048

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Perspectives on the Introductory Phase of Empirical Research Articles by (Kathy) Ling Lin Pdf

Combining English for Specific Purposes (ESP) genre-based analysis, corpus-based language studies, and semi-structured interviews, this book represents the first multi-faceted project on the macro-structure of empirical research articles (ERAs) from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and on the “I+LR” patterned introductory phase (comprising two introductory sections, i.e., the Introduction and the Literature Review in RAs drawn from civil engineering and applied linguistics journals) regarding their rhetorical organization, use of citation, and structural and functional links and variations. The project comprises three logically interconnected studies using a multi-perspective (the cross-disciplinary, cross-generic, emic, and published advice vs. actual expert practices perspectives) approach. It will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the genre evolution, rhetorical organization and citation features of ERAs, enrich English for Academic Purposes (EAP) theories, and facilitate the development of EAP pedagogy and materials.

Author : Fred Pyrczak,Randall R. Bruce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015064094868

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Writing Empirical Research Reports by Fred Pyrczak,Randall R. Bruce Pdf

- Designed for students who will be writing research proposals, reports, theses, and dissertations. - The 15 chapters cover 191 guidelines for effective scientific writing. The guidelines are fully illustrated with easy-to-follow examples. - The guidelines describe the types of information that should be included, how this information should be expressed, and where various types of information should be placed within a research report. - End-of-chapter questions help students master the writing process.

Author : Tricia Serviss,Sandra Jamieson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607326250

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Points of Departure by Tricia Serviss,Sandra Jamieson Pdf

Points of Departure encourages a return to empirical research about writing, presenting a wealth of transparent, reproducible studies of student sources. The volume shows how to develop methods for coding and characterizing student texts, their choice of source material, and the resources used to teach information literacy. In so doing, the volume advances our understanding of how students actually write. The contributors offer methodologies, techniques, and suggestions for research that move beyond decontextualized guides to grapple with the messiness of research-in-process, as well as design, development, and expansion. Serviss and Jamieson’s model of RAD writing studies research is transcontextual and based on hybridized or mixed methods. Among these methods are citation context analysis, research-aloud protocols, textual and genre analysis, surveys, interviews, and focus groups, with an emphasis on process and knowledge as contingent. Chapters report on research projects at different stages and across institution types—from pilot to multi-site, from community college to research university—focusing on the methods and artifacts employed. A rich mosaic of research about research, Points of Departure advances knowledge about student writing and serves as a guide for both new and experienced researchers in writing studies. Contributors: Crystal Benedicks, Katt Blackwell-Starnes, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Kristi Murray Costello, Anne Diekema, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Brian N. Larson, Karen J. Lunsford, M. Whitney Olsen, Tricia Serviss, Janice R. Walker

Author : Adrian R. Bell,Chris Brooks,Marcel Prokopczuk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857936097

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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Finance by Adrian R. Bell,Chris Brooks,Marcel Prokopczuk Pdf

This impressive Handbook presents the quantitative techniques that are commonly employed in empirical finance research together with real-world, state-of-the-art research examples. Written by international experts in their field, the unique approach describes a question or issue in finance and then demonstrates the methodologies that may be used to solve it. All of the techniques described are used to address real problems rather than being presented for their own sake, and the areas of application have been carefully selected so that a broad range of methodological approaches can be covered. The Handbook is aimed primarily at doctoral researchers and academics who are engaged in conducting original empirical research in finance. In addition, the book will be useful to researchers in the financial markets and also advanced Masters-level students who are writing dissertations.

Author : Maren Lytje,Torben K. Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443887373

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Challenging Ideas by Maren Lytje,Torben K. Nielsen Pdf

Challenging Ideas is a selection of articles which address the intersections between theory and empirical research. In general, the contributions to the volume focus on how imaginations of the temporal relationship between past and present might inform theory as well as empirical research. It is divided into two parts, the first of which, Memory, looks at the memory turn in the discipline of history, and includes investigations into the relationship between past and present in the working through of trauma and reflections on the relationship between media memory, collective memory and trauma. The second part of the volume, History looks at the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history. This section includes reflections on how the historian’s archival work might inform the construction of social and political theory and explorations of the temporal relationship between past and present at work in the archives. The contributions to this volume encourage historically oriented scholars to approach their work with an active interest in disciplines close to their topic and a reflexive attentiveness to the broader power relations within which they work. They offer different perspectives on the intrinsic relationship between past and present at work in the interactions between theory and empirical research, and thereby give impetus to challenging ideas and to the challenging of ideas in the social sciences and in the humanities.

Author : Georganne Nordstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 1003052142

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A Writing Center Practitioner's Inquiry Into Collaboration by Georganne Nordstrom Pdf

"This book presents a model of Practitioner Inquiry (PI) as a systematic form of empirical research and provides a rationale for its suitability within a writing center context. Exploring the potential of writing centers as pedagogical sites that support research, the book offers an accessible model that guides both research and practice for writing center practitioners, while offering flexibility to account for their distinct contexts of practice. Responding to the increasing call in the field to produce empirical "RAD" (replicable, aggregable, data-driven) research, the author explores Practitioner Inquiry through explication of methodology and methods, a revisitation of collaboration to guide both practice and research, and examples of application of the model. Nordstrom grounds this research and scholarship in Hawai°i's context and explores Indigenous concepts and approaches to inform an ethical collaborative practice. Offering significant contributions to empirical research in the fields of writing center studies, composition and education, this book will be of great relevance to writing center practitioners, anyone conducting empirical research, and researchers working in tutor professionalization, collaboration, translingual literacy practices, and research methodologies"--

Author : American Psychological Association
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591470358

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The Compleat Academic by American Psychological Association Pdf

A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia's formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. Like its first edition, this expanded volume contains practical advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. problems beginning social scientists will face. Leading academics share the lessons they have learned through their own hard experience. Individual chapters present the ins and outs of the hiring process; the advantages of a post-doctoral fellowship; expert strategies for managing a teaching load; insider and applicant advice for winning a research grant; detailed instructions for writing and publishing a journal article; and an explanation of intellectual property issues. The text also addresses the latter stages of a career. It offers suggestions for keeping one's career dynamic. Chapters that provide specific information for minorities, women and clinical psychologists are also included, and the volume even presents options for working outside of academia.

Author : Mildred L. Patten,Melisa C. Galvan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429871368

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Proposing Empirical Research by Mildred L. Patten,Melisa C. Galvan Pdf

Proposing Empirical Research: A Guide to the Fundamentals provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research proposal in the social and behavioral sciences and using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The structure of the book enables students to work independently with confidence while writing the first drafts of their proposals. Each major section is divided into short topics and for each topic, students are asked to complete an exercise that leads them toward the goal of preparing a proposal. Numerous illustrative examples throughout the book make the recommendations for proposal writing come alive. In addition, the 10 model proposals provided at the end of the book illustrate proposal writing and provide material for classroom discussions. New to the Sixth Edition: Updates throughout to reflect research and learning in the digital/online environment, e.g., online surveys, digital organization tools, digital recruitment methods for research, and digital databases, records, and archives. Discussion of qualitative methods. Updated references, model proposals, end of chapter exercises etc. Proposing Empirical Research is ideal for use in research methods classes where students write a proposal as a term project, thesis/dissertation preparation classes, senior research seminars where proposing and conducting research is a culminating undergraduate activity, and any graduate-level seminar in which the instructor wants to incorporate a project that will engage students in critical thinking about the content area.

Author : Leanne C. Powner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political science
ISBN : 1483395901

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A Political Science Student's Practical Guide by Leanne C. Powner Pdf

A step-by-step guide to writing empirically-focused research papers. Powner, an expert teacher, offers clear, detailed, and often entertaining instructions for formulating hypothesis, doing pre-research, selecting appropriate research designs, selecting cases, collecting and managing both qualitative and quantitative data, preparing data for analysis, writing up research findings, practicing peer review, and delivering findings in posters and presentations, and preparing work for publication. Each chapter contains interesting and useful examples (both hypothetical and real), exercises to help students apply what they've learned, and pedagogical features to inspire, instructor, and aid further research, including "Peer Pointers" (quotes from former students that illustrate "aha!" moments), "Talking Tips" (fundamental and surprising tip for research), and appendix materials that include formatting guidelines and a list of major data sources for political ...

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138984620

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Reading Empirical Research Studies by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf