Qualitative analysis is used in the social sciences and in subjects using social research methods. This approach pays particular attention to texts and their meanings. Over the years many computer programs have been developed to assist such analysis. This book uses an arguably powerful, NVivo, to show how qualitative analysis can be carried out.

This textbook helps students and practising researchers to improve the quality of their research. Practical examples and exercises demonstrate how to evaluate qualitative research, how to plan and collect good quality data, how to do thoughtful analysis and how to write and report on qualitative research.

The bestselling One Line A Day series has sold over 2 million copies! This new rainbow-coloured One Line A Day is a cheerful and easy way to record and reflect.

A Super Quick guide to critically analysing academic texts for your research and assignments.

This book will help students where English is their additional language develop all the necessary study skills needed to achieve success at university

This book offers effective and efficient strategies for fulfilling students' reading and study potential encouraging to look differently at the ways in which they read and think about reading.

This concise and practical text will equip students with the effective reading strategies they need when preparing for their university assessments. It dispels assumptions often made about the nature of reading at university, and provides an overview of the culture of academic reading, note-making, and what markers expect.

Reading Critically at University provides 13 different ways of undertaking a critique. It will help you to confidently use these critique methods to develop your own methods. Each chapter contains sample passages, example critiques and explanations of underlying theory to help you to consolidate your understanding and skills.

This book is essential reading for any student or beginner cook living away from home.

When employees are made redundant they often have no idea about their rights, how to negotiate a severance package or get compensation and how to move on afterwards to a new job. This title takes you through what can often be a traumatic time, with step by step advice on establishing where you stand legally, planning future options, and more.

It concludes with a section on applying reflective practices to personal development and career planning. This handy guide is an indispensable resource for students of all disciplines and levels, who are required to develop and demonstrate reflective qualities in their work.

Release Your Inner Drive: Everything You Need to Know about How to Get Good at Stuff by Bradley Busch and Edward Watson is a book of infographics designed to show teenagers how they can excel at school and in life.

Addressing a key area for researchers and academics, this practical text provides readers with all they need to know about the process of applying for research funding.

The authors bring their experience as librarians to a concise tour of the typical college library and provide easy-to-understand summaries of the print and electronic research tools available to students.

Practical, hands-on focus. Accessible style, even when discussing statistical methods. Integrated coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research. Pioneering discussion of mixed methods research in applied linguistics. Examples of how to report research results.

Provides an understanding of the term 'research student' to embrace all postgraduate students undertaking research, whether for traditional PhDs and MPhils or within programmes such as professional doctorates, 'taught' masters degrees, diplomas and certificates.