If you're struggling with writing your dissertation, or need to write up a practical report as part of your placement, discover how to craft your writing into a well-written project. Using the 'six Ps' - pondering, preparing, planning, pausing, producing and polishing - you'll learn how to produce a persuasive piece of writing, whatever you're studying.

A practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level.

In this book, Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences with one of the newest.

A self-help DIY book for doing research - tells the reader everything they need to know to do research, and to understand others' research.

Always engaging and relentlessly pushing the boundaries, this is a must-read from a pioneer in realist research.

By suggesting the pros and cons and do's and don'ts for each strategy, as well as covering all recent opportunities and developments in the field, this book helps readers to ensure they are getting the most out of the surveying they are doing online.

This comprehensive, expanded third edition offers a sophisticated introduction to qualitative methods based upon six major approaches: ethnography, grounded theory, case study, narrative, phenomenological, and participatory action research.