The Hard-pressed Researcher: A Research Handbook for the Caring Professions

Abstract

" ... Provides practical guidance on how to undertake a research project. It has been written specially for practitioners and students in the caring professions and assumes no specific knowledge of the research process ... [it] covers the major modes of research (experimental research, survey work, case study, interpretative research and action research) and provides step-by-step guidance from conceptualization through to report writing"--Back cover. Finding direction -- Making notes and using a library -- Designing a study -- Action research -- Selecting the method -- Analysis and interpretation of data -- Writing up.