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"The focus of this book is not only on doing research as course work, but also to organise and conduct the whole research process with a view to publishing important results. The editor's own 7Ps model (Saliya, 2021), will be improved by adding three more essential elements to match the purpose of this book to include activities such as Planning (research design), Programming (time frames, co-ordinating and budgeting) and Publishing. The 10 elements are identified as; 1. Paradigm; Positivism, Interpretivism, Constructivism and Critical thought etc. 2. Perspective; Marxism, Power-knowledge, Feminism, Structuralism, Bourdieu's theory etc. 3. Purpose; Articulating research problem, constructing hypothesis etc. 4. Previous knowledge; literature review, Knowledge gap and significance etc. 5. Planning: Research resign 6. Programming; Ethical issues, timing and budgeting etc. 7. Plot (strategies); Quantitative methods, Introducing commonly used software and their strengths and weaknesses, Qualitative methods, Mixed methods and Quantitative Vs Qualitative debate etc etc. 8. Procedures (methods); Gathering/collecting, recording and storing data/evidence via surveys, interviews, observations

Author

Wickrama, Thulitha (author);Merten, Michael J. (author);Perera, Nuwanthi Tharaka (author)

Publisher

Information Science Reference, IGI Global

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781668468609