Organizing and Managing Your Research. A Practical Guide for Postgraduates. Phelps, R., Fisher, K., & Ellis, A. 2007. doi abstract bibtex Contents Foreword vi Preface viii Acknowledgments xii 1 Introduction 1 How do you become both an efficient and an effective researcher? 1 Why become an efficient and effective researcher? 2 Who should use this book? 3 What does the book do (and not do)? 4 2 Establishing Technical Fundamentals 10 Learning about technology 11 Hardware fundamentals 13 Software fundamentals 15 Networking fundamentals 26 Increasing your technical efficiency 30 3 Managing Yourself, Your Ideas and Your Support Structures 35 Know thyself 36 Managing your time 37 Managing your ideas 41 Managing your supervisor 45 Setting up a peer support structure 49 4 Organizing Your Work Environment 56 Organizing your physical environment 56 Constructing a universal filing schema 62 Electronic or hard copy? 64 Managing your paper resources 67 Managing your electronic resources 69 5 Planning and Overseeing Progress of Your Project 79 Developing a research plan 80 Timelines and milestones 83 Project management software 87 Budgets, grants and resource management 91 6 Communicating and Networking Electronically 104 Using the Web for professional networking 105 Asynchronous communication 106 Synchronous communication 117 Translation resources 122 Establishing your own presence on the Web 123 7 Effective Literature Searching 128 The changing nature of information literacy 129 Fundamental searching strategies and skills 129 Tools for locating literature 135 Monitoring literature 146 8 Strategic Web Searching 150 Web-searching tools 151 Improving your search results 157 Managing important websites 159 Ready references on the Web 162 Evaluating Web-based information 162 9 Managing and Organizing your Literature 166 Bibliographic software 167 Strategic handling of your literature 173 10 Designing Data Collection Systems 179 Planning and managing data collection 180 Multimedia data collection 181 Computer-based data collection 190 Simulation software 194 Collecting data online 195 Data from the Internet: some examples 199 11 Managing Data Analysis 207 Qualitative data analysis 208 Quantitative data analysis 217 iv Organizing and Managing Your Research 12 Improving Your Writing Efficiency 238 Word processing skills for research writing 239 Typographical considerations 251 Improving writing efficiency 252 Writing for screen 255 13 Presenting and Publishing Your Research 258 Oral presentations 259 Using presentation software 263 Publishing your research 274 Bibliography 282 Index 286
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