"The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. Th…
"The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. Th…
This work offers contemporary approaches to: system development, design, and installation; system customization; software and hardware compatibility; quality assurance and regulatory requirements; and resource utilization.
Focuses on the practical needs of applied statisticians and experimenters engaged in design, implementation and analysis in various disciplines.
This text provides an introduction to approaches that deal with the theoretical analysis of qualitative data. The theoretical assumptions of different traditions through a discussion of case studies are explained.
Qualitative research through case studies
by Travers, Max
fromIntroducing qualitative methods
"Qualitative Research through Case Studies will help students improve the quality of their work through introducing a wide range of traditions, including interpretive approaches such as grounded theory, dramaturgical analysis, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and polit…
Conduct grade-A research in the library or on the Internet. Your complete toolbox to plan, structure, and write a quality paper. The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English " Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A …
This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most well-established scholars from three c…
Qualitative interviewing has today become one of the most common research methods across the human and social sciences, but it is an approach that comes in different guises. This book will help its readers write, represent, understand, and critique qualitative interview research…
This book, for all researchers using survey data, presents new ways to assess the data's quality and reliability.
First-hand insights into the operations and successes of some of the world's foremost interdisciplinary research centres and the ways in which interdisciplinarity is researched, organized, and taught around the world.
Recent philosophy and history of science have seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Combining philosophical and historical scholarship, the articles in this volume investigate the ways in which scientists form and use concepts, rather than in w…
Oral History is part of the Understanding Qualitative Research series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. There are three subareas in this series: Quantitative Resear…