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Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book is for anyone embarking on a research project or beginning to think about a career involving research, and for those in need of refocusing on why they started research in the first place.

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Table of Contents
1: Introduction 2: Origin stories 3: God or clockwork? The importance of ignorance 4: Careful observation 5: Ideas under pressure 6: Choosing a solution 7: The ideal and the reality 8: Consensus 9: Designing research - from description to theory-building 10: Designing research - experiments 11: Designing research - alternatives to experiments 12: Designing research - R&D 13: Communication 1 - getting published 14: Communication 2 - getting known 15: Money 16: Power and politics 17: How to be a researcher - some conclusions

How to Do Research and How to Be a Researcher

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 24 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9780192868657
      978-0192868657
      ISBN-10 0192868659
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Research methods / methodology Higher education, tertiary education Study and learning skills: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book is for anyone embarking on a research project or beginning to think about a career involving research, and for those in need of refocusing on why they started research in the first place.

      Trade Review
      New and Noteworthy! * The Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin *

      Table of Contents
      1: Introduction 2: Origin stories 3: God or clockwork? The importance of ignorance 4: Careful observation 5: Ideas under pressure 6: Choosing a solution 7: The ideal and the reality 8: Consensus 9: Designing research - from description to theory-building 10: Designing research - experiments 11: Designing research - alternatives to experiments 12: Designing research - R&D 13: Communication 1 - getting published 14: Communication 2 - getting known 15: Money 16: Power and politics 17: How to be a researcher - some conclusions

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