 | Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Buy used from: $0.49 This is the essential book for anyone writing a higher education dissertation. If you have not familiarized yourself with this manual, do it as soon as you can.
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 | By Design: Planning Research on Higher Education by Richard J. Light
Buy new: $25.50 / Used from: $7.98 Although this book was published in 1990, it is still the textbook of choice for most higher education research courses. Why? Because this book is like a special order for higher education doctoral students. You will find this book very helping in constructing your research proposal.
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 | The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Wayne C. Booth
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.00 This is a general book about scholarly research. Addition to By Design, this book will help you understand the role as a researcher and how to build a worthy research project.
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 | The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success by Dr. Lawrence Anthony Machi
Buy new: $24.61 / Used from: $24.00 This book is a good guide for someone who is forming research ideas and trying to write a thesis/dissertation literature review. It provides steps and specific guidelines.
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 | The Synonym Finder by J. I. Rodale
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.22 This is the best thesaurus for a dissertation writer.
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 | Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research by Richard A. Krueger
Buy new: $50.18 / Used from: $45.00 If you are a qualitative researcher and you want to conduct focus group, this is a must-have book. It teaches you almost everything you need to know in conducting focus group.
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 | Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches by John W. Creswell
Buy new: $47.89 / Used from: $46.00 Creswell's book is thin comparing to other research design textbook. If you are already familiar with research design, this book can be a good reference. If you want a hand-on book on research design, there are others out there.
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 | Introduction to Research in Education by Donald Ary
Buy new: $125.56 / Used from: $95.00 There are many introduction to research textbooks out there and they are all very similar. You can choose one that you like. This is just one of them.
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 | Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method 2007 Update with New Internet, Visual, and Mixed-Mode Guide by Don A. Dillman
Buy used from: $40.74 This is "the" textbook in survey design.
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 | Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires (Research Methods for the Social Sciences) by Norman M. Bradburn
Buy new: $31.60 / Used from: $23.89 I found this book very helpful companion to Dillman's book. If gives you very useful step-by-step guidelines in designing your own surveys.
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 | Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods) by Andy Field
Buy new: $67.45 / Used from: $52.99 If you need a statistics handbook and you are using SPSS for your research, this may be the book to have.
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