Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing

By Mary Sue MacNealy

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205272533
• ISBN13: 9780205272532
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Useful but Too Pricey

MacNealy's text is full of useful information, especially to someone new to research like myself. However, the price is an absurd beat-down on the wallet. Frankly, much of the same information is available by a more recent printing in Hughes & Hayhoe's A Research Primer. Both books present essentially the same information though each volume emphasizes different points. The print size and smaller margins in MacNealy's text make it more difficult to use & note comments; H & H's volume is larger, easier to work with & notate, and has summaries at the end. That said, MacNealy does provide some more detailed discussions and examples than H & H. However, if H & H was supplemented by reading about 5-10 different and current research publications from your field, I suspect you'd be just fine. If MacNealy's publisher would update and/or reprint the volume so it was available for circa $40, it's worth it. At over $70, I don't think so.