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practical guide for realistic radicals
• Researching public policy
• Researchmethodsinclinicalresearch
• Assessmentresearch
• Standpoint methodologies: Marxist,
feminist, and black scholarship
perspectives
• Postmodernism:Acriticalpractice? • PostcolonialAfricanmethodsand
interpretation
SUITABLE FOR
Postgraduate students in all disciplines.
Research Matters
F DU PLOOY-CILLIERS, R BEZUIDENHOUT & C DAVIS
Research Matters is a text written for South African under-graduate students. It diffuses typically dense content into easy-to-read chapters to guide beginners through each step in the research process. Examples and applications utilised in the text focus on research problems and objectives in South Africa which students can identify with.
978 1 48510 201 4 978 1 48510 433 9 2014
352 PAGES
ZAR ZAR
R433.00 R404.00
CONTENTS
• What is research?
• Research paradigms and traditions
• Theory in research
• From topic to research question
• The aims of research
• Formulating hypotheses
• The research rationale
• The literature review
• Conceptualisation
• Constructing arguments in research
• Sampling
• Quantitative data collection
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• Qualitative data collection • Action research
• Quantitative data analysis • Qualitative data analysis
• Validity and reliability
• Ethics in research
• Limitations, delimitations and
recommendations
• The research proposal • The research report
• Referencing
Dr Franzél du Plooy-Cilliers is Head of Faculty: Applied Humanities at the Independent Institute of Education. Dr Rose-Marié Bezuidenhout teaches at Monash University and Dr Corné Davis is in the Department of Communication at the University of Johannesburg.
SUITABLE FOR
Undergraduate students in all disciplines.
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