An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing: Practical Skills for Social Science Students - Brossura

Newsome, Bruce Oliver

 
9781483352558: An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing: Practical Skills for Social Science Students

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An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing by Bruce Oliver Newsome is an accessible guide that walks readers through the process of completing a social science project. Written specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate research classes, it introduces students to a complete skill set, including: planning, design, analysis, argumentation, criticizing theories, building theories, modeling theories, choosing methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing the final product. Students can use this text as a practical resource to navigate through each stage of the process, including choices between more advanced research techniques.

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Bruce Oliver Newsome, PhD, is a lecturer in the School of International & Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before teaching, he was a research policy scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He earned his undergraduate degree with honors in war studies from Kings College London, a master’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD in international studies from the University of Reading.

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Covering the full spectrum of skills needed, including planning, scoping, analysis, argumentation, theory building, modelling theories, methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing, this book clearly helps students through each stage of doing a research project.

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