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.