Author: Jacques Barzun,Henry Franklin GraffPublisher: N.AISBN: 105Category: Academic writingPage: 430View: 1130This classic introduction to the techniques of research and the art of expression is used widely in history courses, but is also appropriate for writing and research methods courses in other departments. Barzun and Graff thoroughly cover every aspect of research, from the selection of a topic through the gathering, analysis, writing, revision, and publication of findings presenting the process not as a set of rules but through actual cases that put the subtleties of research in a useful context. Part One covers the principles and methods of research; Part Two covers writing, speaking, and getting one's work published. Author: Robert DeesPublisher: Longman Publishing GroupISBN: N.ACategory: Report writingPage: 420View: 8871Writing the Modern Research Paper is a practical and contemporary guide to writing research papers, offering students advice on how to think critically throughout the research process.

Designed as a complete reference, this book offers a step-by-step guide to research, encouraging students to think carefully and crtitically about such issues as audience, topic, and thesis, as well as evaluating, integrating, and citing sources appropriately. The text covers both informative and argumentative purposes for doing research, including a full chapter on reasoning and evidence in argumentative research papers. Original and realistic student examples throughout show various approaches to the methods of planning and researching. This contemporary book offers full coverage of computer research technologies, extensive attention to the prewriting and planning stages of the assignment, and pedagogy designed to encourage students to work collaboratively. There is also unparalleled coverage of the major disciplinary documentation forms MLA, APA, CBE, and Chicago. The book also features examples from modern research sources (Citation Indexes, the Internet) not covered in other texts. The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth CenturiesAuthor: Rifaʻat Ali Abou-El-HajPublisher: Syracuse University PressISBN: 852Category: HistoryPage: 183View: 5209With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period.

Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia. Turning Evidence-Based Research into Health PolicyAuthor: Dr. Dickson, PhD, RN,Dr. Linda Flynn, PhD, RNPublisher: Springer Publishing CompanyISBN: 342Category: MedicalPage: 400View: 1675'Offers excellent examples of nurses in action - effectively marrying research evidence and theories of policy influence to achieve policy change.Only when we get the right policy research messages to the right policy makers will there be a real research-policy connection. Hats off to Nursing Policy Research authors, contributors and publisher (Springer Publishing Company) for helping move us forward.' Oulton Oulton, Oulton & Associates Specialist in nursing and health policy and development Nurse leaders, researchers, and evaluators face a vital problem in the profession: how to successfully translate evidence-based research into health policy.

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In this book, seasoned researchers share their knowledge, skills, and expertise on the most important aspects of the research enterprise and its connection to policy implementation. Readers will learn how to: Identify the relevant health care issues that policy makers are concerned with Collect and manage data that will influence policy discussion Translate statistical significance into policy at the institutional, state, and federal levels Secure appropriate funding for research on issues in nursing education, the workforce crisis, and more Determine how Congressional processes affect federal funding and budgeting Dickson and Flynn provide the necessary tools to turn evidence-based research into health policy. With these tools, researchers will not only improve their capacity to influence policy decisions, but will take part in the advancement of the profession at large. Author: Linda N.

Groat,David Wang,Professor David WangPublisher: John Wiley & SonsISBN: 654Category: ArchitecturePage: 389View: 5963A practical guide to research-just for architects From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively address the technical, aesthetic, and behavioral issues that arise in their work. This book's unique coverage of research methods is specifically targeted to help professional designers and researchers better conduct and understand research. Part I explores basic research issues and concepts, and includes chapters on relating theory to method and design to research. Part II gives a comprehensive treatment of specific strategies for investigating built forms. In all, the book covers seven types of research, including historical, qualitative, correlational, experimental, simulation and modeling, logical argumentation, and case study and mixed methods. Complete with real-life examples of how good research can be used from project inception to completion, Architectural Research Methods is an essential reference for architecture students and researchers as well as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and building product manufacturers.

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Part One covers the principles and methods of research; Part Two covers writing, speaking, and getting one's work published. Author by: Jacques BarzunLanguange: enPublisher by: Harper CollinsFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 88Total Download: 935File Size: 48,8 MbDescription: Featuring a new preface by the author, a new edition of the best-selling study offers a provocative critique of the intellectual-and pseudo-intellectual world of American culture, identifying three key enemies of Intellect-Art, Science, and Philanthropy-in the areas of public administration, communications, education, business, scholarship, and conversation and home life.

Author by: Jacques BarzunLanguange: enPublisher by: Harper CollinsFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 50Total Download: 747File Size: 47,9 MbDescription: Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader.