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| Creator: John W. Creswell
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
Buy New: $44.95
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 227
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 296
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1412965578
Dewey Decimal Number: 300.72
EAN: 9781412965576
Publication Date: July 16, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent August 2, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I thought this book was the exact opposite of "pedantic" and "verbose." In fact, the writing style is easy to read and, at only 200 pages with big text and plenty of tables and references, is not too focused on the details - no book can with that brief page limit. Regardless, this book was my first introduction to research design and it was perfect. The templates for writing qual., quan., and mixed methods papers were basic and simple, but yet thorough.
Finally, the student examples were perfect. If you want to write a pretentious and dense paper where words like "pedantic" are used as a replacement for substantive ideas, will be consigned to the dusty academic graveyard (the library basement), and that no one will read, then by all means disregard this book. If you are aiming quality, impact, and readability, however, then this book is ideal.
 Good design usually leads to good research July 22, 2005
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Cresswell's book highlights the importance of design in the conduct of good and effective research. If care is taken in the design phase then the research project has a good chance of being successful in achieving its objectives. As Cresswell indicates the purpose or objective of the research needs to be clarified before design and this task itself can be difficult if it's not dealt with carefully.
DM
Researcherlinks.com [www.researcherlinks.com]
 An atrocity of a text.... November 14, 2005
8 out of 20 found this review helpful
Verbose, annoyingly pedantic, and rarely to the point, this text is a disaster from start to finish. For students who have little to no research experience it will be overwhelming in detail (unless you find reading formal style manuals to be a joy). On the contrary, for the more seasoned researcher certain sections will likely appear dubious or downright wrong, insofar as the text has a strong bias towards a certain social scientific approach (which is subject to learned academic debate, a point students should be made aware of). It essentially presents the research process as take it or leave it, encouraging an investigative framework that leads to inevitably trite conclusions. Additionally, it reads like a car manual with many sections repeated verbatim when the need arises for them to be referenced a second time. Finally, it uses examples of students work that are of questionable quality as positive examples, rather than well written, notable published pieces.
In conclusion, this would never be an appropriate guide for a students at elite research universities, nor would it be an efficient approach for students at less vaunted programs.
Good Book!! February 24, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book which is a real help for my research for my dissertation. I would recommend this book to others who are also trying to find the right methods for their research.
 research design March 22, 2006
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
The information in the book was useful. However, compared to other books of the same type and subject matter, the book is overly dense and at times complicted and confusing to read.
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