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Writing and Doing Action Research



November 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?

A useful step-by-step guide to doing action research and to disseminating findings.

Dr Ansurie Pillay
Teacher Education, University of KwaZulu - Natal
March 17, 2015

A must for doctoral students and academics interested in developing their writing skills. I found the book to be very engaging and one that I know I will turn to for advice for students and for myself.

Dr Richard Whitecross
Accounting, Finacial Services and Law, Edinburgh Napier University
March 10, 2015

Suitable for those students who aspire for a deeper understanding of research methodology.

Dr Joseph Vella
Corporate communication, University of Malta
March 10, 2015

More suited to MA students

Mrs Cheryl Cameron
Academic and Professional Services, South Tyneside College
March 2, 2015

This is more about writing than about doing action research. It is therefore less useful to my students, who need more guidance on how to engage in research than how to write.

Dr Bonnie Meekums
School of Healthcare, Leeds University
March 2, 2015

This is an excellent reminder of how we relationally learn. We cannot assume theory before practice and as insiders we still have to be careful of how we portray our results. This book helps keep the balance within the empirical research methods between theory and practice.
Examples and exercises proliferate and I just hope students - and lecturers- can make time to work at them!

Dr Anne Dyer
Postgraduate, Cliff College
March 2, 2015

A key text with an emphasis on writing action research

Mr Steve Watts
School of Education and Lifelong Learning (City), Sunderland University
February 26, 2015

A quite interesting book with a bunch full of fresh ideas.

I really enjoyed reading through it and got some nice new insights which will help me in improve my own research as well. I'm sure, it will also help my students to better understand how to structure their own writings for my classes.

Mr Matthias Schu
Chair for International Management, University of Fribourg
February 26, 2015

A useful additional text regarding action research written in an accessible style

Mrs Sarah Hindmarsh
School of Education (Clifton), Nottingham Trent University
February 18, 2015

Useful background information may be relevant for MA/post grad s as a supplementary text

Ms Karen Hillison
Department of Social Work, Hull University
February 18, 2015