TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelps,Renata
AU  - Fisher,Kath
AU  - Ellis,Allan
ED  - Sage Publications.
TI  - Organizing And Managing Your Research: a practical guide for postgraduates 
SN  - 1412920647
AV  - H61 
U1  - 300.72 PHE 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Recherche
KW  - M�ethodologie
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; 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)? --; 2; Establishing Technical Fundamentals --; Learning about technology --; Hardware fundamentals --; Software fundamentals --; Networking fundamentals --; Increasing your technical efficiency --; 3; 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 --; 4; 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 --; 5; Planning and Overseeing Progress of Your Project --; Developing a research plan --; Timelines and milestones --; Project management software --; Budgets, grants and resource management --; 6; Communicating and Networking Electronically --; Using the Web for professional networking --; Asynchronous communication --; Synchronous communication --; Translation resources --; Establishing your own presence on the Web --; 7; Effective Literature Searching --; The changing nature of information literacy --; Fundamental searching strategies and skills --; Tools for locating literature --; Monitoring literature --; 8; Strategic Web Searching --; Web-searching tools --; Improving your search results --; Managing important websites --; Ready references on the Web --; Evaluating Web-based information --; 9; Managing and Organizing your Literature --; Bibliographic software --; Strategic handling of your literature --; 10; 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 --; 11; Managing Data Analysis --; Qualitative data analysis --; Quantitative data analysis --; 12; Improving Your Writing Efficiency --; Word processing skills for research writing --; Typographical considerations --; Improving writing efficiency --; Writing for screen --; 13; Presenting and Publishing Your Research --; Oral presentations --; Using presentation software --; Publishing your research
N2  - '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
ER  -