Chapter 3 - Selecting and Planning Research Proposals and Projects

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• Author Chapter Introduction Video
• David Gray Introduces Chapter 3


• Author Top Tip Videos
• David Gray on Gaining Access to Organisations
• David Gray on Writing a Hypothesis


• YouTube Videos
• What Makes Good Research?
• The Johari Window
• Freakanomics: Picking a Research Topic
• Lecture on Writing a Good Research Proposal
• Literature Reviews
• Choosing a Method

• Weblinks

• Relevance Trees
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
• http://scholar.google.co.uk/

• Further Reading
• Book Chapters
• Getting Started in Research
• Writing a Research Proposal
• The Use of Theory

• Encyclopedia Entries
• SWOT Analysis Framework
• Methodology


• Journal Articles

• Prompting Innovation in the Workforce: Reave, L. (2002) ‘Promoting innovation in the workplace: The internal proposal’, Business Communication Quarterly, (4): 8–18. Guidelines for producing a work-based proposal including a suggested structure.