readers to science, social science, Māori approaches, cross-cultural and feminist research, and ethics. Part two, 'the basics … of social science research', explains how to do a literature review, design a research project, collect and analyse … quantitative and qualitative data, and write up the results. In part three, 'techniques of social research', a number of prominent …

Provides details on a specific approach to research. The book is relevant to a broad range of disciplines, can be used … in teaching and by practitioners, and is focused on an integrated approach to qualitative and quantitative research …

Publisher's Description: The Third Edition of the bestselling text Research Design by John W. Creswell enables readers … to compare three approaches to research-qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods-in a single research methods text …. The book presents these three approaches side by side within the context of the process of research from the beginning …