Social Work Research and Evaluation : foundations of evidence-based practice / by Grinnell, Richard M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Problems, questions, and hypotheses -- The quantitative approach -- The qualitative approach -- The mixed methods approach -- Research ethics -- Research with minority and disadvantaged groups -- Finding existing evidence -- Evaluating existing evidence -- Evidence-based practice -- Issues for evidence-based practitioners -- Measurement -- Standardized measuring instruments -- Designing measuring instruments -- Sampling -- Group designs -- Single-subject designs -- Structured observation -- Interviewing -- Survey research -- Secondary analysis -- Quantitative content analysis -- Qualitative content analysis -- Selecting a data collection method -- Quantitative data analysis -- Qualitative data analysis: a theoretical approach -- Qualitative data analysis: a step-by-step approach -- Evaluating quantitative studies -- Evaluating qualitative studies -- Positivistic research proposals -- Interpretive research proposals -- Writing research reports -- Program evaluation.…”
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Introduction to Research in Education / by Ary, Donald

Table of Contents: “…The hypothesis in quantitative research -- 6. Descriptive statistics -- 7. …”
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Essentials of Business Research : a guide to doing your research project / by Wilson, Jonathan (Jonathan Stuart)

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to business research -- Developing a research topic -- Conducting a literature review -- Addressing ethical issues -- Establishing a research design -- Primary data collection -- Using secondary data -- Sampling -- Analyzing quantitative data -- Analyzing qualitative data -- Writing up and presenting your research.…”
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Reading, Understanding, and Applying Nursing Research / by Fain, James A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Fain -- Selecting a quantitative research design / Paula T. Lusardi, James A. …”
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The Routledge handbook of stylistics /

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and poetics: the classical heritage of stylistics / Michael Burke -- Formalist stylistics / Michael Burke and Kristy Evers -- Functionalist stylistics / Patricia Canning -- Reader response criticism and stylistics / Jennifer Riddle Harding -- The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics / Christiana Gregoriou -- (New) historical stylistics / Beatrix Busse -- Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory / Derek Bousfield -- Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle / Marina Lambrou -- Stylistics and relevance theory / Billy Clark -- Stylistics, point of view and modality / Clara Neary -- Stylistics and narratology / Dan Shen -- Metaphor and stylistics / Szilvia Csábi -- Speech and thought presentation in stylistics / Joe Bray -- Pedagogical stylistics / Geoff Hall -- Stylistics, drama and performance / Andrea Macrae -- Schema theory in stylistics / Catherine Emmott, Marc Alexander, and Agnes Marszalek -- Stylistics and text world theory / Ernestine Lahey -- Stylistics and blending / Barbara Dancygier -- Cognitive poetics / Margaret H. Freeman -- Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics / Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier -- Feminist stylistics / Rocío Montoro -- Literary pragmatics and stylistics / Chantelle Warner -- Corpus stylistics / Michaela Mahlberg -- Stylistics and translation / Jean Boase-Beier -- Critical stylistics / Lesley Jeffries -- Creative writing and stylistics / Jeremy Scott -- Stylistics and real readers / David Peplow and Ronald Carter -- Stylistics and film / Michael Toolan -- Multimodality and stylistics / Nina Nørgaard -- Stylistics and comics / Charles Forceville, Elisabeth El Refaie, and Gert Meesters -- Stylistics and hypertext fiction / Paola Trimarco -- Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience / Patrick Colm Hogan.…”
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