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Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies

A Practical Guide
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This guide to beginning a research project in the arts therapies, be it for an MA dissertation or a report, tackles various aspects from writing an initial funding proposal and finding a title, to collecting, preparing and analyzing research data. Each chapter contains general research guidelines and do's and don'ts, and ends with a hints and tips summary of material covered. The book offers a step-by-step approach and a fictional narrative combined with technical advice, graphs and illustrations.
1. Beginners' nerves. 2. What turns you on? Working titles and research questions. 3. Plotting, planning and playing safe. 4. The '3R's' of research: Reading, writing and referencing. 5. Making a proposal. 6. Designs and ethics. 7. Franz's project part I. 8. Suzie's project part I. 9. Franz's project part II. 10. Suzie's project part II. 11. Surveying the scene: Questionnaire and survey methods. 12. Finishing off. Epilogue: A community of inquiry. References. Bibliography. Index.
This research text is the best and most comprehensive one for arts therapists that I have come across so far. I have no hesitation about recommending it to novice researchers in the arts therapies and those who instruct them. It is a volume that supplies much of what arts therapists of any nationality need to know about scholarly inquiry - and does so in a most palatable manner.
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