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| By University of Chicago Press |
The Craft of Research is intended to serve any person aspiring to be an effective and sound researcher. The authors have meticulously structured their work to provide fundamental insights on how to approach any research project - be it ones first research based assignment at undergraduate level or business and government related research report.
The language is simple and the logic/rationale of steps lucid. The approach laid out by the authors seeks to help identify the
significance of ones research question. They suggest a simple three-step formula:
- Topic: I am studying _________
- Question: because I want to >nd out what / why / how ________,
- Significance: in order to help my reader understand _________.
As the researcher/reader progresses from step 1 to 2, she/he graduates from just collecting data to a researcher interested in 'understanding something better.' As one moves from step 2 to 3, the one focus on 'why that understanding is significant' (3 ed p. 51)
