Ensure research is ethical with this Little Quick Fix. Cheryl N. Poth helps the reader to identify the ethical considerations of their research, protect the privacy of their subjects, develop an ethical research design and respond to ethical issues as they arise.

Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on Ethnography in the digital world. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process.

This requires recognition that social research is part of the world that it studies, and demands that researchers reflect on how they shape both ...

Designed to reduces students' anxieties and minimize unnecessary formulas, this fourth edition provides a comprehensive introduction to basic statistical designs and analyses.

Sagt man »auf ein Projekt bestehen« oder »auf einem Projekt bestehen«? Die Fragen zu typischen Zweifelsfällen der deutschen Sprache, die regelmäßig an die Duden-Sprachberatung herangetragen werden, werden in diesem Wörterbuch ausführlich behandelt. Sortiert von A bis Z gibt der Band Antworten auf orthografische, grammatische und stilistische Fragen und bietet Empfehlungen bei Varianten. Durch einfache Erklärungen, Übersichtsartikel zu Themen wie Kommasetzung oder Fremdwörtern sowi...

The third edition of the bestselling student guide to doing media and cultural studies research provides all the knowledge and practical expertise needed to carry out a project or dissertation.

In this fourth edition, the authors present the fundamentals of research design and data management with five distinct methods of analysis: exploring, describing, ordering, explaining and predicting.

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers, including Shane the Lone Ethnographer-a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West-and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook, we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography, grounded theory, discourse, and narra...

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn't answering a question.

It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate-one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so t...

Lecturers teaching big mixed cohort intro statistics courses cite one of the more frequent challenges their students encounter involves choices over which statistical test to use. This Little Quick Fix helps them to overcome this common hurdle.