books about: methodologies     books:       The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)4 reviews Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, ... University Of Chicago Press, 2008 Excellent resource Although there are many books on writing research or term papers, I have not found anything else which brings together material on planning, reasoning and writing the research paper as well as this book. Ignore any reviewers who make this book out to be a simplistic text. It is an excellent work on well reasoned writing that even most graduate students can benefit greatly from reading. As a ...             Statistics for Business and Economics (with CD-ROM)3 reviews David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, ... South-Western College Pub, 2007 Great book.....the subject? meh The material was straightforward and easy to understand, although it may have helped that our school requires us to take calculus first. I found the examples helpful...however it was brought to my attention that our faculty likes some of their "own" formulas better than the shall we say long, drawn-out tedious formulas of the book. Same answers, just different ways of getting them. Anyhow, ...             The Practice of Social Research13 reviews Earl R. Babbie Wadsworth Publishing, 2006 Easy Read! I bought this book for a research class. I found the chapters were fun and easy to read and understand the material. Plus up-to-date events used as samples in the book.             Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice (Nursing Research (Polit))8 reviews Denise F Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 Valuable Research Tool! This is an excellent book. It makes studying research very easy to follow and understand. Great resource book! A must-have for any research course on any level (graduate or undergraduate).             Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges30 reviews Antonin Scalia, Bryan A. Garner Thomson West, 2008 The Bible of Brief Writing I'll be brief (no pun intended). If you are a lawyer or law student who wants to write better and more persuasive briefs - buy or borrow this book! I've completely changed my legal writing style after reading Judge Scalia and Garner's book.             Applied Behavior Analysis (2nd Edition)19 reviews John O. Cooper, Timothy E. Heron, ... Prentice Hall, 2007 Amazing Text This text is spectacular. This edition is a triumph. I was a bit dubious when the forward obliquely compared this book to The Beatles (The White Album), but have become more sympathetic to the perspective as I have spent more time with it. Cooper/Heron is simply the book to use in studying Applied Behavior Analysis. It's not chummy or dated like some texts of 70s (an effort to reduce the response ...             Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches25 reviews John W. Creswell Sage Publications, Inc, 2008 Delivers as promised Book is an excellent introduction to research design for qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods designs. It explains all the components of a research design and walks you through each one, inclding the literature review, research question and hypotheses. Also, the first chapter goes through the different theoretical perspectives from which reseach proceeds, so you can understand the ...             Practical Research: Planning and Design (8th Edition)11 reviews Paul D. Leedy, Jeanne E. Ormrod Prentice Hall, 2004 Practical Research: Planning and Design A great book for a graduate student like me. It helps you how to pick a topic, have some questions concerning a topic, and make them into a research that is in your words. It is an excellent book for a beginning researcher, guiding him or her step by step, through the entire research process with practical suggestions. It is a great book if you want to have a quality research in any discipline. ...             Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches12 reviews John W. Creswell Sage Publications, Inc, 2006 Look for the new edition We need this book for our masters in educational psych. I understand there is now a 2nd edition, 2007 we should be asking for. I'll order this one I guess directly from school. Hope this helps. Ann             Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice (3rd Edition) (Foundations Of Clinical Research)6 reviews Leslie Gross Portney, Mary P. Watkins Prentice Hall, 2008 User-friendly and well-organized This is a book that I have used often through my graduate career. It served as a great textbook for a course I was taking and as supplementary material for other other courses on Statistics, Design and Research Methods. Well-organized and easy-to-read, it has become my first line-of-defense for all things related to research design. It covers the material in adequate detail so you have a good ...             The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)43 reviews Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, ... University Of Chicago Press, 2003 A Must Have! As a seminary student in the midst of a master's thesis, 'The Craft' is a joy. It is helpful, and both easy to navigate and understand.             Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Science5 reviews Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau Wadsworth Publishing, 2007 Good and easy to understand statistics book I had to get this book for my statistics class. I am not good at math but this book is written well enough that I was able to get a great grade on a test. I am pretty happy with this book :) Maggie (Frankfort, IL)             The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique, & Utilization10 reviews Nancy Burns, Susan Grove Saunders, 2004 A "know why" and know "how to" conduct research This text is required for my doctoral level quantitative research course. I have been busy actively learning (actual data analysis & critique). For the first time I feel that research can become a reality. It's too bad this text did not cross my path 10 years ago as the beginning point for previous research courses. The text is not a difficult read. The excerpts from actual research and visuals ...             The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark393 reviews Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan Ballantine Books, 1997 Pleasantly Surprised When I started reading this book, it seemed to go slow and I thought about giving up. But, as I went on, the relevance of what he wrote made more and more sense. When I was through, I was pleased that I had read it all the way through and now I am a much more critical thinker.             The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story479 reviews Richard Preston Anchor, 1999 Good for Non-Fiction This book was required summer reading for me, and at first I was a little bit hesitant to pick up a non-ficiton book. I usually gravitate more towardes horror novels. However, this book suprised and delighted me. It read like a cohesive fiction novel, it didn't throw too many facts or figures or scientific jargan at you. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in viruses or any type of science ...             The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual, A Student's Guide to Techniques22 reviews James W. Zubrick Wiley, 2007 great book very helpful for organic chemistry lab, very clear directions and the author writes in a way geared towards students so it is funny             Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind93 reviews V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee Harper Perennial, 1999 Absolutely Fantastic Book While this book may not be for everyone, I believe that most people will have a hard time putting it down. Ramachandran's ability to explain absurdly complicated concepts with simple language and simple methods is just one of the facets of his genius. After readking Phantoms I burned through at least 4 other books he wrote, but still Phantoms is by far the best.             McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers (College ...19 reviews Wilbert McKeachie, Marilla Svinicki Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005 This book gets better with each new edition For the 12th edition of this book, McKeachie has added more valuable chapters that will benefit experienced as well as novice college instructors. Each chapter is fairly short -- often no more than 5 or 6 pages -- and edited to eliminate "fluff." Each quickly gets to the point and offers practical suggestions for such things as how to handle problem students in the classroom, how to create good ...             Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (3rd Edition)2 reviews John W. Creswell Prentice Hall, 2007 Good book This book covers research in great detail. The website is very helpful as well.             Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics9 reviews Neil J. Salkind Sage Publications, Inc, 2007 Great Experience The book was brand new and arrived very promptly! The only thing I would caution you when buying this book, is that is does NOT include the CD with it...so research a little further before purchasing. Overall, great experience and a great book!              search for books applications, approaches, assessing, behavioral, choosing, clinical, conducting, critique, demon-haunted, economics, educational, essentials, evaluating, foundations, generating, mckeachie, mysteries, persuading, phantoms, planning, practical, publishing, qualitative, quantitative, statistics, strategies, techniques, terrifying, university, utilization books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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