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Introduction to Research Methods and Report Writing: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers in Social Sciences and the Humanities is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book provides introductory materials on research methods and report writing that aim at guiding students and researchers towards effective research and reporting of their findings. Unlike the many volumes on research that are mostly theoretical, this book originated in the classroom and grew out of the students' own needs to design and conduct satisfactory research in order to meet academic...

a theory is an explanation about an existing phenomenon, idea, or situation. It is a well–substantiated explanation about a phenomenon, idea or situation that researchers believe to be true. This means that a theory comprises tested hypotheses which are accepted as the bases of the explanation of that particular phenomenon, idea, or situation. It contains an idea “that condenses and organizes knowledge about the social world.”10 In turn the hypotheses are built up of interrelated concepts. Therefore,