First Steps In Research

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By Kobus Maree

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Practical guidelines on how to conduct and report on research at undergraduate and postgraduate level, using the most current perspectives in the field both locally and internationally. Examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of qualitative, quantitative and integrated or mixed methods of conducting research and suggests how these three approaches may best be used. Aimed at novice researchers. Contents include the following:

  • Formulating a research question
  • Planning a research proposal
  • Conducting a preliminary literature review
  • Ethical considerations
  • Interpreting data
  • Data collection methods, including how to engage participants and elicit "thick" data
  • Sampling methods
  • Graphical ways of representing data
  • Basic probability rules
  • Basic statistical methods and tests/techniques
  • First Steps In Research