Checklists and Guidelines

The checklists and guidelines below provide handy, quick-reference information as you work through your research project.

Checklists

• Choosing an academic institution
• Choosing a supervisor
• Ethical research
• Reading the literature
• Referencing under the Harvard system
• Literature review
• Assessing a research topic
• Project proposal
• Eliminating questions
• Conducting quantitative data analysis
• Reducing interviewer bias

• Systematic literature search
• Generating a network of primary citations
• Writing a literature review
• Ten ways to get your proposal turned down
• Repertory grid technique
• Focus group
• General analytical procedure for qualitative data
• Constructing data displays
• Quasi-judicial method
• Cognitive mapping
• Designing questions
• Analysing quantitative data
• Presentation of text
• Report design
• Main sections in the methodology chapter of a positivist study
• Main sections in the methodology chapter of an interpretive study
• Constructing tables
• Constructing charts and graphs