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Writing and Doing Action Research
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Writing and Doing Action Research


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Action Research

December 2014 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean McNiff provides a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the practical aspects of writing and doing action research.

 

Written for practitioners involved in higher degree courses and professional development programmes, and students undertaking methods courses, this book includes guidance on how to:

  • Carry out an action research project in your setting
  • Present your findings in a dissertation, report or thesis
  • Write up your research with an eye to informing policy
  • Demonstrate the quality of your research and writing
  • Be critical and write theoretically
  • Write for journals and prepare thesis and book proposals

The book contains excerpts taken from action research projects in a range of settings and presents exercises to help you develop successful written accounts of your research.

 

Writing and Doing Action Research is an essential text for anyone working with action research, providing vital guidance on the preparation and production of texts, how this type of work is assessed and enabling you to get the best results from your research.


 
Introduction
 
What is written in an action research text?
 
What do you need to know about action research in order to write it?
 
What do you need to know to write action research? Why do you need to know it?
 
What do you write in an action research text?
 
What is the form of an action research text?
 
Becoming a writer: researching writing practices
 
Becoming a writer
 
Writing a good quality text
 
Planning for the production of texts
 
Writing an action research text
 
Writing proposals
 
Masters and doctoral dissertations and theses
 
How will the quality of your action research dissertation/thesis be judged?
 
Writing for publication
 
Writing for academic and professional journals
 
Writing your first academic book
 
The significance of your text
 
The significance of your action research text
 
Some implications – where next?

This is an excellent, practical guide for doing action research! Furthermore, the guidance on how to produce good quality writing makes this a valuable source for students who are still developing academic writers.

Professor Susan Coetzee
Educational Leadership and Management, University of South Africa
June 13, 2015

A very useful book discussing how to do action research in a setting. It generates discussion questions and issues to reflect upon while still offering a practical approach to how to carry out good action research.

Ms Joanna Harrison
School of Health and Wellbeing, Wolverhampton University
June 11, 2015

I found the book so useful. I could easily select and apply the appropriate research processes of formulating a research proposal.

Thanks to Jean McNiff and SAGE

Mrs Mpho Mbeo
Business Administration , Central University of Technology
June 4, 2015

A useful introduction to action research.

Mr Alistair Jewell
Higher Education, Runshaw Adult College
June 1, 2015

Another very comprehensive guide to AR. The 'writing' sections are not as useful for MA Education students as the 'doing' sections, but I would recommend as a supplemental text for keen students.

Miss Christine Lewis
Professional Development , Edge Hill University
May 28, 2015

This is good easy to read book, suitable for beginners in research. It provides A-Z processes in research for those exploring the meaning and how to go about doing research.

Professor Simphiwe Mini
Department of Geography, University of South Africa
May 19, 2015

I love this book. It provides an accessible and practical approach to writing about action research. So many other books focus on the process of conducting action research - this one helps us explore how to share our research with others.
I will be referring to it regularly over the next year or so as I continue to write up my PhD thesis.

Mrs Tracy Hayes
Working with children and families, University of Cumbria
April 17, 2015

This is an informative book. I particularly like the use of the summary section at the end and also the reflective questions. This I feel allows the student (reader) to apply theory to practice.

Mrs Adele Nightingale
Faculty of Health (Liverpool), Edge Hill University
April 16, 2015

An essential text to support practitioner research

Sasha Pleasance
Teacher Training, South Devon College
March 26, 2015

An essential read for our trainee teachers who undertake action research at both under and post graduate level.
An accessible text that de-mystifies the research world to the novice researcher.

Ms Clare Winder
Dept of Education and Social Science, University of Central Lancashire
March 24, 2015