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Books to help with research

General

  • Birley, Graham - A practical guide to academic research / Graham Birley and Neil Moreland - London : Kogan Page, 1998 - 0749422777 : Shelfmark: 378.065/BIR : Location: Park
  • Cottrell, Stella - The study skills handbook / Stella Cottrell - 2nd ed - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 - (Palgrave study guides) - 1403911355 : Shelfmark: 378.1702812/COT : Location: Park
  • Drew, Sue - The student skills guide / Sue Drew and Rosie Bingham . - 2nd ed . - Aldershot : Gower, 2001 - 0566084309 : Shelfmark: 378.170281/DRE : Location: Park
  • Phillips, Estelle, 1928 - How to get a PhD : managing the peaks and troughs of research / Estelle M P - Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1987 - 0335155375 : Shelfmark: 378.24/PHI : Location: Park
  • Rudestam, Kjell Erik . - Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process /  - 2nd ed - Thousand Oaks, Calif; London : Sage, 2001 - 0761919619 : Shelfmark: 808.0668/RUD : Location: Avenue and Park
  • Silverman, David - Doing qualitative research : a practical handbook / David Silverman - 2nd ed - London : SAGE, 2005 - 1412901979 : Shelfmark: 300.72/SIL : Location: Park
  • Watson, George, 1927- - Writing a thesis : a guide to long essays and dissertations / George Watson - London : Longman, 1987 - 0582494656 : Shelfmark: 808.02/WAT : Location: Avenue
  • Wisker, Gina - The postgraduate research handbook : succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and Ph - Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001 - (Palgrave study guides) - 0333747771 : Shelfmark: 808.066/WIS : Location: Avenue and Park

Funding

  • Ries, Joanne B - Applying for research funding : getting started and getting funded / Joanne - Thousand Oaks, Calif; London : Sage, 1995 . - 0803953658 : Shelfmark: 658.15224/RIE : Location: Park

Proposals

  • Davitz, Joel Robert - Evaluating research proposals : a guide for the behavioral sciences / Joel R - Upper Saddle River, N J : Prentice Hall, 1996 - 0133485668 : Shelfmark: 300.72/DAV : Location: Park
  • Guidelines on writing a research proposal - Edinburgh : National Board for Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting for Scot, 1995 - 1873327080 : Shelfmark: 610.73072/GUI : Location: Park
  • Locke, Lawrence F - Proposals that work : a guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals - 3rd ed - Newbury Park, CA; London : Sage Publications, 1993 - 0803950675 : Shelfmark: 808.066/LOC : Location: Park
  • Punch, Keith - Developing effective research proposals / Keith F. Punch - London: SAGE, 2000 - (Essential resources for social research) - 0761963561 : Shelfmark: 300.72/PUN : Location: Park

Writing

  • Anderson, Jonathan, 1939- - Assignment and thesis writing / Jonathan Anderson, Millicent Poole - 4th ed - Brisbane; Chichester : Wiley, 2001 . - 0471421812 : Shelfmark: 808.066/AND : Location: Park
  • Berry, Ralph, 1931- - The research project : how to write it / Ralph Berry - 5th ed - London : Routledge, 2004 - (Routledge study guides) - 0415334454 : Shelfmark: 370.78/BER : Location: Avenue and Park
  • Writing research : transforming data into text / edited by Judith Clare, Hel - Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2003 - 0443071829 : Shelfmark: 808.0660014/WRI : Location: Park
  • Dunleavy, Patrick - Authoring a PhD : how to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 - (Palgrave study guides) - 1403911916 : Shelfmark 808.066/DUN : Location: Park
  • Murray, Rowena . - How to write a thesis / Rowena Murray - Buckingham : Open University Press, 2002 - 0335207197 : Shelfmark: 808.066/MUR : Location: Avenue and Park

Publishing

  • Day, Abby, 1956- - How to get research published in journals . - Aldershot : Gower, 1996 pbk - 0566077671 : Shelfmark 001.405/DAY : Location: Avenue and Park
  • Holmes, Olive - Thesis to book : what to get rid of / Olive Holmes, 1974 - (Scholarly publishing ; October 1974) - k1628189 : Shelfmark: Short Loan P SLP2356 : Location: Park

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