Fundamentals of Research in Education and Social Sciences: With Emphasis on Academic Proposal and Thesis Writing

Description

This book is a tailor-made text that addresses research difficulties exhibited by budding scholars and postgraduate students in universities. Drawing from the authors’ long experience in teaching and supervising postgraduate students at both masters and Doctorate levels, this text addresses specific research issues from preliminary section of a proposal or thesis through chapter one to five of the research report. To make it simple to follow and understand, every topic begins with the statement of expected learning outcomes. The outcomes guide the reader to the specific contents of each chapter thereby making the book simple, interesting and easy to follow to the reader. The monograph adopts the academic proposal writing approach where it examines every subheading contained in the thesis regarding how it needs to be written. The three chapters of a proposal and their components is covered in this book. This book elucidates on how to publish research results. In an effort to empower new researchers, there is a topic on how to participate in academic conferences and seminars as a way of disseminating research findings.