Subject Guides
Research methods
Books, journal articles, videos and websites about research design and methods including audience studies, content analysis, discourse analysis, focus groups, narrative analysis, surveys and meta-analysis. (Created January, 2008) (To find additional resources, see subject headings at the bottom of this page.)
Last update 08/12/2009HANDBOOKS AND OVERVIEWS
by Allen, Mike; Titsworth, Scott; Hunt, Stephen K.
(Sage, 2009)
by Knowles, J. Gary; Cole, Ardra L.
(Sage 2008)
by Creswell, John W.
(Sage Publications, 2007)
by Wimmer, Roger D.; Dominick, Joseph R.
(Thomson Wadsworth, 2006)
by Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena (ed.).
(Nova Science Publishers, 2005)
Table of Contents
by Patten, Mildred L.
(Pyrczak Pub., c2005)
by Locke, Lawrence F.
(Sage, 2004)
by Iorio, Sharon Hartin (ed.).
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004)
by Kaid, Lynda Lee
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004)
Table of Contents
by Jensen, Klaus Bruhn (ed.).
(Routledge, 2002)
by Meyer, Philip
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
by Garner, Simon
Publishing Information: Insight Media, 2002
Location: McNichols Campus Library
Call Number: LB 1047.3 .I64 2002 DVD
"This program ...covers five sections: deciding on a topic, breaking down the elephant (narrowing down a broad topic), collecting data, analysing data, and writing a report."
by William M.K. Trochim
(Atomic Dog Publishing, 2001)
by Berger, Arthur Asa
(Sage Publications, 2000)
by Asamen, Joy Keiko; Berry, Gordon L. (eds.).
(Sage Publications, 1998)
RESEARCH DESIGN
by Leedy, Paul D.; Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis
(Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, 2005)
by Creswell, John W.
(Sage, 2003)
ETHICS
by Lee-Treweek, Geraldine; Linkogle, Stephanie (eds.).
(Routledge, 2000)
by Mauthner, Melanie
(Sage Publications, 2002)
AUDIENCE STUDIES
by Butsch, Richard
(Routledge, 2008)
by Webster, James G.; Phalen, Patricia F.; Lichty, Lawrence W.
(L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006)
by Gunter, Barrie
(Sage, 2000)
by Arbitron
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This detailed website describes the methods Arbitron uses to determine radio audience ratings.
CONTENT ANALYSIS
by Neuendorf, Kimberly A.
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This site includes flowcharts and links to information on reliability assessments, codebooks and coding forms, and computer content analysis.
by Klein, Harald
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This site focuses on computer software for text analysis, including a glossary, and detailed, categorized links of software programs and how they work.
by Krippendorff, Klaus; Bock, Mary Angela (eds.).
(Sage Publications, 2009)
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
by Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
by Bhatia, Vijay K.; Flowerdew, John; Jones, Rodney H. (eds.).
(Routledge, 2008)
by Schegloff, Emanuel A.
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
by Seedhouse, Paul
Location: McNichols Campus Library
Call Number: P 95.45 .A66 2005
by Yarbrough, Stephen R.
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1999)
by Lemke, Jay
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This website was developed to accompany a course on discourse and multimedia analysis at the University of Michigan. It includes links to online readings, a short glossary, and course notes.
by Teun A. van Dijk
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This website includes over forty full-text articles and book chapters by the author, an expert in the subject, on discourse methods and their applications.
FOCUS GROUPS AND INTERVIEWS
by Stewart, David W., Prem N. Shamdasani, and Dennis W. Rook.
(SAGE Publications, c2007)
by Gubrium, Jaber F. , and James A. Holstein, eds.
(Sage, 2001)
by Carey, Martha Ann
Volume (issue), date, pages: 5(4), November 1995
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This special issue of Qualitative Health Research includes articles on focus group methodology, ethics, analysis, applications and pitfalls.
by Grudens-Schuck, Nancy; Allen, Beverlyn Lundy; Larson, Kathlene
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This website from the Iowa State University Extension Center briefly summarizes the purposes, procedures and limitations of focus group research.
NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
by Boje, David M.
(Sage, 2001)
SURVEYS
by Dillman, Don A.
(Wiley, 2007)
Table of Contents
by Fink, Arlene
(Sage Publications, 2006)
Table of Contents
by Rea, Louis M.; Parker, Richard A.
(Jossey-Bass, 2005)
Table of Contents
by Schonlau, Matthias; Fricker, Ronald D. Jr.; Elliott, Marc N.
(Rand, 2002)
by University of Illinois at Chicago Survey Research Laboratory
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This site includes links to codes of survey ethics and best practices, survey data analysis resources, and information on sample sizes and generating random samples.
by American Association for Public Opinion Research
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A detailed list of twelve necessary elements for conducting a quality survey.
by American Statistical Association : Survey Research Methods Section
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This online booklet explains how to plan a survey, conduct pretesting, collect data, analyze data, and judge survey quality.
META-ANALYSIS
by Preiss, Raymond W.
(Erlbaum Associates, 2007)
Table of Contents
by Allen, Mike (ed.).
(Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002)
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
by NoruĊĦis, M. J.;
(Prentice Hall, 2008)
For additional resources, search the UDM library catalog for the following LC subject headings:
- Communication -- Research
- Conversation analysis
- Discourse analysis, Narrative
- Discourse analysis -- Research -- Methodology
- Interpersonal communication -- Research
- Mass media -- Research
- Radio programs -- Ratings -- Methodology
- Research -- Methodology
- Social surveys
- Social sciences -- Research -- Methodollgy
- Television programs -- Ratings -- Methodology
