Research Process :: Step by Step

* This book provides all of the guidance, advice and tips key to writing successful research reports. * The vast majority of social science and humanities undergraduate students need to write reports, essays, dissertations or research papers. This book is relevant to all of those students. * Each section is broken down to ensure to explore the basics, helping to avoid common mistakes and offering tips for improvement.

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way.

Find out the rules of the essay-writing game: how to muckrake for information, write drafts, handle references, and do analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive and coherent step-by-step guide to writing in scientific academic disciplines. It is an invaluable resource for those working on a PhD thesis, research paper, dissertation, or report. Writing these documents can be a long and arduous experience for students and their supervisors, and even for experienced researchers. However, this book can hold the key to success. Mapping the steps involved in the writing process - from acquiring and organizing sources of information, to revising early drafts, to proofreading the final product - it provides clear guidance on what to write and how best to write it.