Student Research and Report Writing - 9781118963906

STUDENT RESEARCH AND REPORT WRITING

From Topic Selection to the Complete Paper

`Student Research and Report Writing is the most comprehensive and yet concise guide to student research that I have seen. Wang and Park get to the essence of what new researchers need to know and anticipate, without oversimplifying or cutting corners. I will definitely incorporate it into my teaching.'

Howard Lune, The City University of New York

`Wang and Park have taken their years of experience with fielding student questions about the research process and put them to excellent use in this book. Written from the "inquiring minds" perspective, the authors do a great job of posing and answering questions that every student researcher should ask and must ultimately answer when embarking on an independent research project. Students and professors alike will undoubtedly find this book most helpful.'

Janet Ruane, Montclair State University

Student Research and Report Writing is a user-friendly and practical research guidebook for students -- undergraduate and postgraduate -- in any social sciences discipline who are carrying out research and/or writing a thesis. It provides the guidance and tools to build on earlier stages of work toward a completion of their papers, delivering a comprehensive, yet concise, all-in-one guide.

With students' challenges and questions in mind, this book focuses only on the knowledge and skills that are practically needed and helpful, with each chapter answering typical questions that students frequently ask. It starts with the challenges of student research topic selection; moves on to information search, literature review, and constructing hypotheses and/or research questions; helps with research design, and research proposal-writing; shows how to conduct quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis; and guides the reader through the process of writing their paper, effectively guiding students on each step of the journey.