Organizing And Managing Your Research a practical guide for postgraduates /
Phelps, Renata.
Organizing And Managing Your Research a practical guide for postgraduates / [electronic resource] : Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher and Allan Ellis. - London : SAGE, 2007. - 1 online resource (xiii, 290 p. : ill.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- How do you become both an efficient and an effective researcher? -- Why become an efficient and effective researcher? -- Who should use this book? -- What does the book do (and not do)? -- Establishing Technical Fundamentals -- Learning about technology -- Hardware fundamentals -- Software fundamentals -- Networking fundamentals -- Increasing your technical efficiency -- Managing Yourself, Your Ideas and Your Support Structures -- Know thyself -- Managing your time -- Managing your ideas -- Managing your supervisor -- Setting up a peer support structure -- Organizing Your Work Environment -- Organizing your physical environment -- Constructing a universal filing schema -- Electronic or hard copy? -- Managing your paper resources -- Managing your electronic resources -- Planning and Overseeing Progress of Your Project -- Developing a research plan -- Timelines and milestones -- Project management software -- Budgets, grants and resource management -- Communicating and Networking Electronically -- Using the Web for professional networking -- Asynchronous communication -- Synchronous communication -- Translation resources -- Establishing your own presence on the Web -- Effective Literature Searching -- The changing nature of information literacy -- Fundamental searching strategies and skills -- Tools for locating literature -- Monitoring literature -- Strategic Web Searching -- Web-searching tools -- Improving your search results -- Managing important websites -- Ready references on the Web -- Evaluating Web-based information -- Managing and Organizing your Literature -- Bibliographic software -- Strategic handling of your literature -- Designing Data Collection Systems -- Planning and managing data collection -- Multimedia data collection -- Computer-based data collection -- Simulation software -- Collecting data online -- Data from the Internet: some examples -- Managing Data Analysis -- Qualitative data analysis -- Quantitative data analysis -- Improving Your Writing Efficiency -- Word processing skills for research writing -- Typographical considerations -- Improving writing efficiency -- Writing for screen -- Presenting and Publishing Your Research -- Oral presentations -- Using presentation software -- Publishing your research. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
'Organizing and Managing Your Research' deals with the practical, day-to-day aspects of managing and organizing research. Its focus is on strategies, skills and systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research practice across all disciplines.
1412920647 9781412920643 1412920639 9781412920643 9781412920643 1849209545
Research--Methodology.
Recherche--M�ethodologie.
Research--Methodology
H61
300.72 PHE
Organizing And Managing Your Research a practical guide for postgraduates / [electronic resource] : Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher and Allan Ellis. - London : SAGE, 2007. - 1 online resource (xiii, 290 p. : ill.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- How do you become both an efficient and an effective researcher? -- Why become an efficient and effective researcher? -- Who should use this book? -- What does the book do (and not do)? -- Establishing Technical Fundamentals -- Learning about technology -- Hardware fundamentals -- Software fundamentals -- Networking fundamentals -- Increasing your technical efficiency -- Managing Yourself, Your Ideas and Your Support Structures -- Know thyself -- Managing your time -- Managing your ideas -- Managing your supervisor -- Setting up a peer support structure -- Organizing Your Work Environment -- Organizing your physical environment -- Constructing a universal filing schema -- Electronic or hard copy? -- Managing your paper resources -- Managing your electronic resources -- Planning and Overseeing Progress of Your Project -- Developing a research plan -- Timelines and milestones -- Project management software -- Budgets, grants and resource management -- Communicating and Networking Electronically -- Using the Web for professional networking -- Asynchronous communication -- Synchronous communication -- Translation resources -- Establishing your own presence on the Web -- Effective Literature Searching -- The changing nature of information literacy -- Fundamental searching strategies and skills -- Tools for locating literature -- Monitoring literature -- Strategic Web Searching -- Web-searching tools -- Improving your search results -- Managing important websites -- Ready references on the Web -- Evaluating Web-based information -- Managing and Organizing your Literature -- Bibliographic software -- Strategic handling of your literature -- Designing Data Collection Systems -- Planning and managing data collection -- Multimedia data collection -- Computer-based data collection -- Simulation software -- Collecting data online -- Data from the Internet: some examples -- Managing Data Analysis -- Qualitative data analysis -- Quantitative data analysis -- Improving Your Writing Efficiency -- Word processing skills for research writing -- Typographical considerations -- Improving writing efficiency -- Writing for screen -- Presenting and Publishing Your Research -- Oral presentations -- Using presentation software -- Publishing your research. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
'Organizing and Managing Your Research' deals with the practical, day-to-day aspects of managing and organizing research. Its focus is on strategies, skills and systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research practice across all disciplines.
1412920647 9781412920643 1412920639 9781412920643 9781412920643 1849209545
Research--Methodology.
Recherche--M�ethodologie.
Research--Methodology
H61
300.72 PHE