Literature Review on the Book “The Craft of Research”



Literature Review on the Book the Craft of Research

Introduction

The Book, “The Craft of Research”, gives us a broad overview of qualitative and quantitative research. Starts with a necessary starting point of the research and states how to clarify your research hypothesis. In addition, to this is also provides techniques and rule of executing a research and revision of the subject of knowledge, approached from the epistemological to understand the concrete totality of reality, and terminology of the author, as a whole and interdisciplinary.

Discussion

The book craft of research is a book written by Wayne, B., Williams, J., and Colomb, G. The main purpose for this book was to provide a process which entails all the relevant information required to conduct a empirical research, there are ways provided required to gather sources for the writing results.

Before conducting our research plan we propose to raise some hypotheses, which we define as assumptions based on experiences, preconceptions and even common sense. The assumptions allow us to predict what will happen and must be verifiable by observation or experiment. After establishing the plan of action to answer our questions, seek evidence or experimental data that can prove or disprove our ideas. Here we need to distinguish between research, experiment and experience.

In this section we are required to provide a literature review for this book. In this book there are three sections:

Research, researchers, and readers

Asking questions, finding answers

Making a claim and supporting it

Preparing a draft, drafting, and revising

Some last considerations

These sections are essential to understand what requirements for conducting a research are. In the background identifies the dynamic dimension of qualitative research, As attempts to identify the underlying nature of reality, its structure and relationships down to meet the two basic tasks of all research: collecting data and categorize and interpret them. Treatment of the framework, objectives, hypotheses and variables, identify several qualitative methods and instruments and procedures.

Main aspects of the book

The writer has provided many aspects which are required to conduct a research following are the main heads which will help to provide a clear picture of the whole book.

Hypothesis

Null: The mixed approach uses both qualitative and quantitative methods and blends the resulting data in certain ways.

Alternative: The mixed approach does not use both qualitative and quantitative methods and blends the resulting data in certain ways.

Steps in mixed methodology

The steps in the mixed methodology are usually numbered but their application may vary from research to research. There are eight basic steps in the mixed methodology which have been explained below:

First and foremost the research must analyze the mixed methodology and decide whether this methodology is appropriate or not. The researcher must choose it if it properly answers all the research questions and provide a reliable result. The rationale must be determined appropriately. And the rationales include the triangulation, the complementarily, the development, the initiation and the expansion.

The research design must be selected properly.

The data must be collected using different collection ...