A Student's Guide to Methodology: Justifying Enquiry

By Cathy Nutbrown and Peter Clough

Book Overview

As a comprehensive and practical guide for students, this book presents clear and straightforward information and advice. The authors present a perspective on methodology as a process, which begins from the moment that curiosity about a topic is aroused. Although in dissertations and theses methodology is normally reported within a single methodology chapter, the authors show how every element of the account - from the framing of research questions to the drawing of conclusion - is a function of methodology. Contents Wilfred Carr Preface: How to Read This Book\Part One: Research is Methodology\What Is Research?\What Is Methodology?\Part Two: The Pervasive Nature of Methodology\Observation and Analysis: Seeing beyond the Known\Voices and Interpretation: Attending to Voices\Literature and Research Settings: Purposes and Posititions of Texts and Practices\Research Questions and Interviews: The Heart of Research\Part Three: Making Research Public\Responses to Data and Analysis: Shaping the Study\Ethical and Moral Considerations: Telling the Story\Reporting Research: Next StepsInspection CopiesBooks marked are available to lecturers as an inspection copy. Visit the Website

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761974229
• ISBN13: 9780761974222
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 7.0"