Understanding Research: A Simplified Form
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This book is a step by step practical guide designed to provide students with technical and methodological skills to enable them to make sense of qualitative and quantitative research in a simplified form. The text is based on lecture notes and personal experiences of the authors acquired over several years of lecturing research methods course to undergraduate and postgraduate students and engaging fellow scholars of research methods during research workshops and seminars. The book is meant to be a resource material to students particularly those undertaking research methodology courses to think critically and logically as they engage in the research activities. The book explains, with relevant examples, the basics of research in social sciences. Moreover, the authors have used a simple language, devoid of jargon, in their quest to communicate salient research terms and concepts. This book covers major stages and procedures in basic research processes namely: background of the study, statement of the problem, research objectives, research questions and hypothesis, justification of the study, scope of the study, and structure of the research report.

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