Creative Writing for Social Research

by Phillips, Richard
Creative Writing for Social Research
Author: Phillips, Richard
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447356004
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This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques outlined by the authors. The book is user-friendly and shows readers: • how to write creatively as a social researcher; • how creative writing can help researchers to work with participants and generate data; • how researchers can use creative writing to analyse data and communicate findings. Inviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission to write creatively but also shows them how to do so.

Creative Writing Studies

by Graeme Harper
Creative Writing Studies
Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 184769019X
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Here creative writers who are also university teachers monitor their contribution to this popular discipline in essays that indicate how far it has come in the USA, the UK and Australia.

Authoring a PhD

by Patrick Dunleavy
Authoring a PhD
Author: Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230802087
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This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.

Creative Research Methods

by Helen Kara
Creative Research Methods
Author: Helen Kara
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447356756
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Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions which are hard to answer using conventional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, helping researchers to address social injustice. This bestselling book, now in its second edition, is the first to identify and examine the five areas of creative research methods: • arts-based research • embodied research • research using technology • multi-modal research • transformative research frameworks. Written in an accessible, practical and jargon-free style, with reflective questions, boxed text and a companion website to guide student learning, it offers numerous examples of creative methods in practice from around the world. This new edition includes a wealth of new material, with five extra chapters and over 200 new references. Spanning the gulf between academia and practice, this useful book will inform and inspire researchers by showing readers why, when, and how to use creative methods in their research. Creative Research Methods has been cited over 750 times.

Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences

by Kara, Helen
Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Author: Kara, Helen
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447316282
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With foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen. Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions, which are hard to answer using traditional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, helping researchers to address social injustice. This accessible book is the first to identify and examine the four areas of creative research methods: arts-based research, research using technology, mixed-method research and transformative research frameworks. Written in a practical and jargon-free style, with over 100 boxed examples, it offers numerous examples of creative methods in practice, from the social sciences, arts, and humanities around the world. Spanning the gulf between academia and practice, this useful book will inform and inspire researchers by showing readers why, when, and how to use creative methods in their research.

Creative Writing for Social Research

by Phillips, Richard
Creative Writing for Social Research
Author: Phillips, Richard
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447355970
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This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques outlined by the authors. The book is user-friendly and shows readers: • how to write creatively as a social researcher; • how creative writing can help researchers to work with participants and generate data; • how researchers can use creative writing to analyse data and communicate findings. Inviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission to write creatively but also shows them how to do so.

Writing Research Papers in the Social Sciences

by James D. Lester
Writing Research Papers in the Social Sciences
Author: James D. Lester
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780321267634
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Using the same step-by-step guidance that made Writing Research Papers 11e the definitive research paper guide, this text will enable students in the social science disciplines and in some freshman composition classes to create research papers that advance or defend a theory, offer a review of research methodology, or create a paper from their own empirical research using the APA style. Writing Research Papers in the Social Sciences provides sample papers demonstrating the rules of documentation as well as the writing style for the social sciences while detailing the uses of new computer technologies students are using today.

The Psychology of Creative Writing

by Scott Barry Kaufman
The Psychology of Creative Writing
Author: Scott Barry Kaufman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2009-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521881641
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The Psychology of Creative Writing takes a scholarly, psychological look at multiple aspects of creative writing, including the creative writer as a person, the text itself, the creative process, the writer's development, the link between creative writing and mental illness, the personality traits of comedy and screen writers, and how to teach creative writing. This book will appeal to psychologists interested in creativity, writers who want to understand more about the magic behind their talents, and educated laypeople who enjoy reading, writing, or both. From scholars to bloggers to artists, The Psychology of Creative Writing has something for everyone.

Qualitative Research for Quantitative Researchers

by Helen Kara
Qualitative Research for Quantitative Researchers
Author: Helen Kara
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-01-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1529784212
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This book equips any quantitative researcher, at any level, who finds they need to use qualitative methods, with the necessary theoretical and practical skills they need to leverage their quantitative background into successful qualitative research.