In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean Mc Niff provides a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the practical aspects of writing and doing action research.
Written for practitioners involved in higher degree courses and professional development programmes, and students undertaking methods courses, this book includes guidance on how to:
- Carry out an action research project in your setting
- Present your findings in a dissertation, report or thesis
- Write up your research with an eye to informing policy
- Demonstrate the quality of your research and writing
- Be critical and write theoretically
- Write for journals and prepare thesis and book proposals
The book contains excerpts taken from action research projects in a range of settings and presents exercises to help you develop successful written accounts of your research.
Writing and Doing Action Research is an essential text for anyone working with action research, providing vital guidance on the preparation and production of texts, how this type of work is assessed and enabling you to get the best results from your research.
Table of Content
Introduction
What is written in an action research text?
What do you need to know about action research in order to write it?
What do you need to know to write action research? Why do you need to know it?
What do you write in an action research text?
What is the form of an action research text?
Becoming a writer: researching writing practices
Becoming a writer
Writing a good quality text
Planning for the production of texts
Writing an action research text
Writing proposals
Masters and doctoral dissertations and theses
How will the quality of your action research dissertation/thesis be judged?
Writing for publication
Writing for academic and professional journals
Writing your first academic book
The significance of your text
The significance of your action research text
Some implications – where next?
About the author
Jean Mc Niff is Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, UK. She is also a Visiting Professor at Ui T the Arctic University of Norway, and at the Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers’ University, People’s Republic of China. Jean took early retirement from her position as deputy head teacher of a large secondary school in Dorset, UK. She went into business for herself, and developed her writing. Her textbooks on action research and professional education are now used internationally on workplace-based professional education courses and on higher degree courses. Jean provides interdisciplinary consultancy work to institutions around the world where she gives lectures and conducts workshops on planning, doing and writing action research. Jean aims to contribute to personal and social betterment through educational research. She encourages everyone to make their stories public in the form of their personal and collaborative theories of practice; and she firmly believes that each individual is able to contribute to social and planetary wellbeing by explaining how they hold themselves accountable for what they do. In this way she links education with moral accountability. She tries to bring the university to everyday contexts, and everyday contexts into the university, for it is only by involving everyone, she feels, that the world will become a better place for us all.
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