Understanding Research: A Consumer's Guide

by Vicki L. Plano Clark, John W. Creswell

Understanding a Consumer's Guide is the first text that places its focus squarely on the needs of the research consumer. This exciting new text helps develop in readers the skills, knowledge and strategies needed to read and interpret research reports and to evaluate the quality of such reports. Users rave about the easy to use and easy to understand format that makes this text perfect for anyone.

Genres: Nonfiction, Teaching, Grad School, Textbooks

408 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2009

Reviews

[Seyed Hashemi · Rating 2 out of 5]

برای درس روش تحقیق باید می‌خوندمش.
آخه ما خیرِ سرمون دانشجو هستیم و باید پژوهش انجام بدیم نه اینکه مشتری و مصرف‌کننده طرح‌های پژوهشی باشیم. اینم از انتخاب کتاب استادا!!

البته نویسنده‌های کتاب توی Mixed Methods یه سری پژوهش و مقاله مهم دارن.

البته نظم و مثال‌های خوبی داشت. ولی خب!

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very thorough with example articles highlighting all of the important elements of research reviewed in the text. Not a very exciting read given the topic, but detailed and full of helpful lists and examples.

[Jake Loney · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is incredibly informative. I learned amazing things like how to identify research questions in a research report; Look for a question mark! Also I had no idea scientists used this thing called the scientific method, pure gold. I hope you find yourself forced to read something this impressive in a future course of study, it really made the last two months of my masters course, just, the best.

[Jessica Burstrem · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read nearly all of this book as the assigned textbook for an introductory graduate social sciences methodology course. It is geared toward readers of scholarly writing, but it is quite useful for writers of scholarly writing, which was our goal. Examples are targeted to education researchers, but the book is effective for anyone considering social science research. I found it quite valuable as a starting point in my own writing and am likely to continue to consult it in the near future.

[Tracey Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this as part of a master's degree program, and it was very helpful and informative, but by the nature of the topic, not the most exciting thing I've ever read. I did like how they had lots of examples articles to go along with what you read in the chapter and serve as a mentor text for when I needed to create my own literature review.

[Kady · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information about research. I hated reading it.

[Emily Gauthier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative for creating or reading and research study.

[Anna Wakefield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had to read it for grad school. Very informative about the different elements of a research article. I wish I had this in my undergrad!