The Foundations ofResearch (Palgrave Study Guides)

                              

Author(s): Jonathan Grix
Series: Palgrave Study Guides
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,Year: 2004
ISBN: 1403921458,9781403921451

Description:
This book offers advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with anaccessible introduction to the foundations of research in the human sciences.It covers the tools, terminology and research perspectives that researchers andstudents will need to know in order to engage in academic debate, and tosuccessfully complete their long essays, dissertations and theses. A particularstrength of this volume is its style: It is written to the student as opposedto just for them. Language is kept as clear as possible, especially whendescribing the basic assumptions upon which all research is built.