Title: The hard-pressed researcher : a research handbook for the caring professions /
Authors: Edwards, Anne, 1946-; Talbot, Robin, 1952-
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research Design; Nursing Research; Social service Research
Abstract: "... Provides practical guidance on how to undertake a research project. It has been written specially for practitioners and students in the caring professions and assumes no specific knowledge of the research process... [it] covers the major modes of research (experimental research, survey work, case study, interpretative research and action research) and provides step-by-step guidance from conceptualization through to report writing"--Back cover.
Contents: Finding direction -- Making notes and using a library -- Designing a study -- Action research -- Selecting the method -- Analysis and interpretation of data -- Writing up.