Your Research Project

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives students the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for a research project.

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives you the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for your research project. The new edition of this bestselling book will help you:

• Explain research theory within the context of your own project

• Curate, structure, and format your literature review

• Anticipate the challenges of social media and web-based research

• Apply how to tips quickly to your own research planning and design

• Monitor your progress in the field with checklists

• Develop writing habits to use as a springboard for dissertations, reports, and articles

• Build a foundation of practical, general research skills like time management, organization, and critical thinking to carry you beyond your project.

New to the 4th Edition:

• New step-by-step chapter on how to write a successful research proposal

• New chapter 'Writing Strategies' offers guidelines for different assignments to help carry students beyond their research proposal

• More How To examples of literature reviews, proposals and ethics applications

• Expanded coverage of literature review strategies - more emphasis on accessing on-line resources and use of the internet

• Enhanced checklists of issues for consideration or tasks students should undertake in order to progress their work

• More information surrounding online and social media research and implications on information sourcing, ethics, and methods

• Increased coverage of the research methods section to include more practical support and additional information on mixed-methods

• Further stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism with an expanded section on this topic.

  Autorentext

After twenty years in architectural practice in Scotland, England and Switzerland designing a wide range of buildings, industrial, commercial, residential, and renovating and restoring historic buildings, I returned to academic activities when I embarked on a Ph.D. at Oxford Brookes University.

My university teaching and examining experience has been at all levels, with the preponderance at postgraduate level. I have supervised to successful completion twenty Ph.D. students and two MPhils, 1 KTP, and examined 13 Ph.D. candidates. I have published several popular textbooks and guides on construction aspects and on how to do research for students and practitioners and how to write Ph.D. theses, Masters and Undergraduate dissertations.

As Senior Researcher, Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development Architectural Engineering Group, my research was based mainly on the technology of building construction - innovative, existing and historic, on vernacular architecture, and issues regarding accessibility in buildings and surroundings. My published papers and reports are read internationally and have been presented at international conferences.

Inhalt

Introduction
Particular Features of the Book
Structure and Outline of the Book
Chapter 1 Types of Research and the Research Problem: Beginning Your Project
Chapter 2 Research Theory and the Nature of Knowledge: Understanding Philosophies and Approaches
Chapter 3 Using Language and Understanding Arguments
Chapter 4 Finding, Organising and Retrieving Information
Chapter 5 Doing Your Literature Review, Forming Original Ideas and Defining Your Research Topic
Chapter 6 Honesty and Research Ethics: Establishing an Ethical Code
Chapter 7 Research Methods: Choosing the Best Methods for Your Project
Chapter 8 The Research Proposal: Planning and Structuring Your Ideas
Chapter 9 Writing Strategies: Getting Started and Maintaining Momentum Throughout Your Project