Table of Contents
Preface.
PART I LIMBERING UP.
1 Turning Your General Aim Into a Specific Question.
2 Taking a Preliminary Look at What Has Already Been Done.
PART II ON YOUR MARKS.
3 Coming Up With an Initial Plan of Action.
4 Carrying Out a Systematic Search.
5 Building a Team.
PART III GET SET.
6 Choosing the Best Study Design.
7 Selecting Samples for Quantitative Research.
8 Selecting Samples for Qualitative Research.
PART IV WAIT FOR IT.
9 Deciding What Information to Collect.
10 Tackling Confounders.
11 How Many People to Study?
12 Getting Ready for a Qualitative Analysis.
13 Getting Ready for a Quantitative Analysis.
14 Writing Your Final Protocol.
15 Arranging Funding.
16 Getting Permission to Go Ahead.
PART V GO!
17 Recruiting the Participants.
18 Collecting and Recording the Data.
19 Living With (and Without) the Data.
PART VI STAYING THE COURSE.
20 Taking Stock.
21 Making Sense of Your Results – the Quantitative Case.
22 Making Sense of Your Results – the Qualitative Case.
PART VII THE FINISHING LINE.
23 Writing a Research Paper.
24 Setting Out Your Findings.
25 Writing Your Discussion.
26 Writing a Thesis or Other Report.
27 Dealing With Journals.
Further Reading.
Index.