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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...

In turn the hypotheses are built up of interrelated concepts. Therefore, concepts are building blocks of a particular theory. What is Theory building? According to the above definition of research, theory building is the construction of explanations about an existing phenomenon, idea, or situation using the collected data. This is also called “theory after” meaning that data are collected first and a theory systematically developed after that by the use of the collected data. Most qualitative researches