Research techniques?

Doing a Google search on the terms Research Technique will give you several good reads on some websites. Making good use of Google searches by using the important keywords of your subject is a good start. The sites Google responds with will often have further supporting references for you to continue with. You can narrow the focus even more by using Google's advanced search fields to further define the search criteria. You might find more books on the subject at Amazon.com by doing a similar search there.

Here's one of the books at Amazon. Amazon displays 25 sample pages from the book and reviews from folks who have read/purchased it.


Basics of Qualitative Research : Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory
by Juliet M. Corbin (Author), Anselm Strauss (Author)


Book Description

The Second Edition of this best-selling textbook continues to offer the immensely practical advice and technical expertise that will aid researchers in analyzing and interpreting their collected data, and ultimately building theory from it.

The authors provide a step-by-step guide to the research act. Full of definitions and illustrative examples, the book presents criteria for evaluating a study, as well as responses to common questions posed by students of qualitative research. Significantly revised, Basics of Qualitative Research remains a landmark volume in the study of qualitative methods.

That's very true and I thank you for the info. I use Google frequently, but I sometimes prefer asking questions on this forum because it is still better to talk to a "person" DIRECTLY , especially if he/she is experienced, and from that point I can open a discussion about the topic and exchange knowledge.
Something you can not do by Google

Vonderjohn

This is an interesting question, and there's no definitive answer. Let me say, by way of introduction, that my background and training is that of specialist medical research librarian. I've also had some experience (albeit a while ago, in telecommunications and teaching).

May I start by asking a few questions? (see - this is my research)

You say it's for personal use. What do you mean by personal use?
How much information are you looking for?
What are you planning to do with it?
What sort of information are you looking for? (books, magazine articles, newspapers, highly scientific or technical)?
If technical, what aspects?
What languages?

For example, you say you researched pollution, 2002.
How much detail?
Which aspects?
Water, sea, land, air, atmospheric, global, or in your backyard.
Industrial?
Automotive?
etc.

What sort of things did you come up with?
Were you happy with the search?
What did you expect to find?
How did you use it?

For your current topic: Norwegian Red Cross - what are you looking for? In what languages? What aspects - simply history, membership, or policies, or personnel, or what they do, or things they've done, or are planning to do.?

You need to define some of the questions before you jump in to look for information.

I'm happy to give more detailed advice if there are questions I can answer.

Cheers

I would love to learn more technique about this sort of subject.

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