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Completing Your Research Project
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Completing Your Research Project
A Guide for the Social Sciences

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February 2025 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help you manage and complete your research project successfully.

It will guide you on:

-Planning your research project
-Developing data collection tools
-Analysing and interpreting data
-Presenting your research in different formats

Featuring chapter objectives, checklists, student exercises, weblinks, and further reading, this comprehensive guide ensures readers navigate the complexities of research within a manageable step-by-step framework.


 
Introduction
 
Chapter One: What is Social Science Research and Why is it Important?
 
Chapter Two: Planning a Social Science Research Project
 
Chapter Three: Reviewing Social Science Literature
 
Chapter Four: Being an Ethical Researcher
 
Chapter Five: Methods of Social Science Data Collection
 
Chapter Six: Social Science Data Analysis
 
Chapter Seven: Presenting Your Social Science Research
 
Chapter Eight: Introducing and Concluding
 
Chapter Nine: Submitting Your Social Science Research Project

'Doing a first research project can be intimidating. This offers a practical guide for the puzzled student. Written in an easy to read, conversational style, full of helpful examples, this will become the key book in the field'.

David Silverman
Visiting Professor at the Business Schools University of Technology, Sydney; King’s College, London; and Leeds University.

Completing Your Research Project is a comprehensive guide for social science students. It takes the reader through planning, the collection and analysis of data, presenting findings, writing up and submission and what examiners are looking for in their assessments. This is an authoritative book that students will find invaluable.

Tim May
Honorary Distinguished Professor, University of Cardiff.

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