Full Description
What's a theoretical framework for? How do you effectively present your data in a figure? What's the secret to a good presentation?
As an interdisciplinary student, you delve into theories and research methods from a whole range of disciplines. Academic skills are the tools that you can use to take in, develop, integrate and question knowledge. This guide provides specific instructions, tips and examples to help students develop these skills, both during and after their studies.
As academic education focuses on research, the empirical cycle forms a key theme of the book, including when discussing the following skills:
Searching for, critically reading and analysing scholarly texts
Formulating research questions
Making concepts measurable, qualitatively and quantitatively
Organizing literature and data
Analysing and formulating an argument
Academic writing
Collaborating
Reflecting
Presenting
This handbook offers practical instructions, tips, and tricks that help undergraduate students to develop the skills needed for an interdisciplinary curriculum.
Contents
Acknowledgements, Introduction, About this book, Central theme: research practice and the empirical cycle, Part 1 Orientation and reading, Part 2 Making your research measurable, Part 3 Doing and writing up research, Part 4 Reflecting and communicating, Appendices, Index
