This is a research book with a difference. It tells the truth about the research process. Each phase of a research project is addressed in the simultaneous order in which researchers often undertake them. Importantly, the book recognizes that writing up a research project is rarely organized in the form in which the dissertation is finally presented.
Researching Education: data, methods and theory in educational enquiry
This book examines the theory and practice of researching education, focusing on the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data.
Most of the chapters in this book are extended papers from Research Learning in Virtual Environments (reLIVE08), an international conference held by the UK Open University in Milton Keynes in November 2008. Authors of the best papers and presentations from the conferences were invited to contribute to Research Learning in Virtual Worlds, the first book to specifically address research methods and related issues for education in virtual worlds.
Researching for Writers: How to Gather Material for Articles, Novels and Non-fiction Books
From the Preface: All writers at some time need to do research. This book explains how to go about it. Whether you are researching for an article, a biography, a textbook or a novel you will find useful information in the following pages. You are shown how to prepare your topic and plan your research. Various research techniques are introduced to you and you are shown how to make best use of them.
Dubin's Lives is a novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud (1979). The title character is a biographer working on a life of D. H. Lawrence. William Dubin of Vermont is living the comfortable life of an accomplished writer. Though his marriage to Kitty is slightly timeworn, it is stable and loving. While researching the biography of D. H. Lawrence, he meets twenty-three year old Fanny and begins an affair with her. Predictably, the consequences of this act rock Dubin's life and invite the reader to draw parallels with similar events in the lives of the writers Dubin is researching.
