Research Basics: Design to Data Analysis in Six Steps [Paperback]

Research Basics: Design to Data Analysis in Six Steps offers a fresh and creative approach to the research process based on author James V. Spickard&rsquo;s decades of teaching experience.&nbsp;Using an intuitive six-step model, readers learn how to craft a research question and then identify a logical process for answering it. Conversational writing and multi-disciplinary examples illuminate the model&rsquo;s simplicity and power, effectively connecting the &ldquo;hows&rdquo; and &ldquo;whys&rdquo; behind social science research. Students using this book will learn how to turn their research questions into results.Research Basics: Design to Data Analysis in Six Steps offers a fresh and creative approach to the research process based on author James V. Spickard&rsquo;s decades of teaching experience.&nbsp;Using an intuitive six-step model, readers learn how to craft a research question and then identify a logical process for answering it. Conversational writing and multi-disciplinary examples illuminate the model&rsquo;s simplicity and power, effectively connecting the &ldquo;hows&rdquo; and &ldquo;whys&rdquo; behind social science research. Students using this book will learn how to turn their research questions into results. An extremely well organized text covering basics of research design and methods that consistently uses the six steps in the text and in examples to assure that students understand. As Spickard explains, students tend to fear and shy away from research and particularly statistics courses. This textbook is designed in such a manner that it engages the student and keeps the student's attention through case illustrations and an easy-to-read format. It incorporates much of what must be pieced together from multiple resources into one text. The six-step strategy<l£$