Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Value of a Project -- How to use this book -- What will be learned from this book? -- Why do a project? -- The general aims and objectives behind the project and its assessment -- Qualities and attributes of a researcher -- Summary -- Further reading -- 2 Preparing to Do Your Project -- What is a project? -- How big should the project be? -- What is research? -- Why a code of ethics is necessary -- Research misconduct -- The consequences of research misconduct -- Detecting research misconduct -- Administration of the project -- Summary -- Further reading -- 3 Choosing a Topic -- The hypothesis -- The relationship between you, your course and the workplace -- Finalising the topic -- Topic analysis -- The research question -- Creating a knowledge map -- Some criteria to be satisfied -- Summary -- Further reading -- 4 Writing the Project Proposal -- The importance of the proposal -- Feasibility of the proposed research -- What is involved in preparing the proposal? -- How is the proposal linked to the final project report? -- The importance of supervision of the project, from proposal to final report -- A sample project proposal - Riversbridge Borough Council -- An exercise in writing a proposal -- Summary -- Further reading -- 5 Planning the Project -- The project life cycle -- Advantages of a detailed project plan -- Creating the project plan -- A case study in project planning -- Summary -- Further reading -- 6 Risk Assessment and Management -- Defining risk -- Risk and your project -- Assessing risk -- Managing risk -- Categorising risk -- Risk table and risk time line -- Summary -- Further reading -- 7 Methodology -- Finding out about methods -- Relating the methods to the types of research -- Operationalising a concept.

Data and information capture instruments -- Data and information collection and organisation -- Questionnaires -- Organising records -- Summary -- Further reading -- 8 The Literature Review -- The purpose of a literature review -- What is a literature review? -- Why review the literature? -- What a literature review is not -- What should be reviewed? -- How much literature is there in your subject? -- Doing the literature review -- How is the review done? -- How do you choose the literature to be reviewed? -- What should be searched? -- What limits a review? -- How should the boundaries of the search be set? -- What should you look for in the literature? -- How should the review be written? -- Summary -- Further reading -- 9 Using Results -- Results analysis strategy -- Questionnaire results analysis -- Interview results analysis -- Product results analysis -- Realia results analysis -- Document analysis -- Case study analysis -- Problems and errors in research -- Summary -- Further reading -- 10 Writing the Project Report -- What a report is -- The writing plan -- The basic structure of a report -- The three writing stages -- Some style features -- Some technicalities of report writing -- Summary -- Further reading -- Appendix 1 Sample Project Record Forms -- Appendix 2 Sample Work Schedules -- Appendix 3 Literature Item Review Record Form -- Appendix 4 Literature Item Location Record Form -- Appendix 5 Steps to Making a Written Proposal -- Appendix 6 Relationship of the Project Proposal to the Project Report -- Appendix 7 Checklist for Determining Confidence in Your Methodology -- Appendix 8 A Method of Working on the Literature Review -- Appendix 9 Databases -- Bibliography -- Index.