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100			_aCreswell, John W.
245			_aResearch design : _bQualitative, Quantitative, and mixed methods approaches / _c John W. Creswell,
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aThousand Oaks : _aLondon : _aNew York : _bSAGE Publications, _c2003.
300			_axxvi, 246 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes references and index.
520			_aThis book addresses these issues by providing a guide to major design decisions, such as deciding a paradigm, stating a purpose for the study, identifying the research questions and hypotheses, using theory, and defining and stating the significance of the study. Each chapter is organized to first present the principles about composing and writing qualitative and quantitative approaches followed by specific examples from journal articles and dissertations from a variety of fields within the social and human sciences. Each chapter concludes with writing exercises that relate back to these formats so that the reader can end the book with a written plan for a scholarly study. Research Design is aimed at upper division to graduate level research methods courses that are taught to prepare students to plan and write up
650			_asocial sciences. _xresearch
650			_asocial science _xmethodology.
650			_asocial sciences _xstatistical methods.
942			_2ddc _cMED