In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean McNiff 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.
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?
