Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical Guide for Postgraduates

Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher, Allan Ellis

SAGE, Feb 22, 2007 - Psychology - 290 pages

Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical Guide for Postgraduates deals with the practical, day-to-day aspects of managing and organizing research. It focuses on strategies, skills, and systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research practice across all research disciplines. Written in an accessible, non-technical style that speaks directly to the reader in a personal and collegial voice, this text gives practical advice and offers many tips and strategies gleaned from experienced researchers. The written text is accompanied by a website that provides downloadable templates and live links to appropriate sites.

Contents

• Establishing Technical Fundamentals: 10
• Managing Yourself Your Ideas and Your: 35
• Organizing Your Work Environment: 56
• Planning and Overseeing Progress of Your Project: 79
• Communicating and Networking Electronically: 104
• Effective Literature Searching: 128
• Strategic Web Searching: 150
• Managing and Organizing your Literature: 166
• Designing Data Collection Systems: 179
• Managing Data Analysis: 207
• Improving Your Writing Efficiency: 238
• Presenting and Publishing Your Research: 258
• Bibliography: 282

About the author

Renata is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University (http: //www.ccyp.scu.edu.au/). She has also been a Senior Lecturer with the School of Education. Allan is currently Director of Research and Research Training for the School of Commerce and Management. He currently teaches and supervises post graduate students in the field of learning, training, technology implementation and change management. His research interests are in the areas of adult learning and educational technology with a particular focus on electronic networks such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. Allan is the organiser of the AusWeb Conference series and the Chair of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee Allan supervises post graduate research students enrolled in Masters, PhD and Professional Docorates programs. He is a member of the International Centre for Change, Innovation and Organisational Research and the Centre for Curriculum, Innovation and Learning Technologies. He chairs the AusWeb conference series http: //ausweb.scu.edu.au and is member of the International World Wide Web conference Committee http: //www.iw3c2.org

Bibliographic information

• Title: Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical Guide for Postgraduates; Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical Guide for Postgraduates, Renata Phelps; Titolo collana
• Authors: Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher, Allan Ellis
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: SAGE, 2007
• ISBN: 1412920647, 9781412920643
• Length: 290 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Research & Methodology; Reference / Research; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Research