Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Emerging researchers need a range of specific skills to plan and successfully complete their research projects. While there are multiple books available on methods, there is much less information on the key skills needed to complete a project. Designing and Managing Your Research Project provides information about the key areas needed for a successful project. It includes software skills, developing research objectives, writing proposals, literature reviews, getting ethics approval, seeking funding, managing a project, communicating research findings, and writing reports. There is also a chapter on working as an independent researcher.Designing and Managing Your Research Project includes numerous examples, checklists, and practical exercises designed to assist the learning of research skills and the completion of crucial project tasks. It covers procedures needed for conducting projects electronically and accessing information from the Internet. This book is designed to complement texts covering quantitative and qualitative research methods in health and social sciences. It will be particularly useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students planning theses and dissertations and other researchers in the early stages of their career.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Designing and Managing Research Projects: An Overview
• Designing a New Research Project
• Developing Research Aims and Objectives
• Preparing and Writing a Research Proposal
• Getting Funding for Research
• Research Ethics and Ethics Reviews
• Doing a Literature Review
• Managing a Research Project
• Software for Research
• Working with Colleagues and Supervisors
• Communicating Research Findings
• Writing for Research: Some Guiding Principles
• Writing a Research Report
• Careers in Research
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1 Example of a Completed Research Proposal