Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal: A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers (Mixed Methods Research Series) 1st Edition

I needed this book for a class. It came on time and appeared to be new, even though it wasn't. I'm very satisfied with the book.

Really easy to read, as a graduate student it all makes sense and I strongly recommend

Awesome book, it has great information and it is easy to read and understand. I wish I had found it sooner!!

this book is a great read and very helpful. It takes you step by step through the proposal writing process and it allows you to think your project through to ensure it is feasible. Get it!

Easy to follow steps, logical steps, good examples!

I am a PhD student in the dissertation proposal phase of my program. This book is very helpful in guiding you through the whole process. Very clear guidelines and examples. The authors provide very valuable tips and insights and even provide a whole dissertation proposal as an example in addition to examples of each section of a dissertation. Well written and easy to read. I highly recommend this book to anyone starting a PhD program, or writing or about to write a dissertation proposal.Students who would find this book helpful:- Beginning a PhD, EdD or Master's program. This book helps you think about your research questions or possible areas of research in a way that will help you consider how to make all of your coursework and class choices relevant in preparation for your dissertation or thesis- A PhD or EdD student who is part-time and may need a refresher on research or a more solid how to guide in the absence of the day-to-day cohort support that a full-time student may have- A PhD or EdD student who is doing a program online or hybrid - and may need more support (same reasons as above)- Any student who has not taken a Dissertation Proposal class - or it has been awhile since the class was taken and a refresher would help- A student who is in a program that may not provide step-by-step or explicit dissertation proposal guidelines or support. Some programs expect the student to "figure it out" themselves, in which cases, a how to guide like this is helpful.- A learner/student who finds that examples and actual models are more relevant and helpful than guidelines. One nice aspect of this book is that they show you all the research questions or options they considered alongside the ones that they used and explain the thinking and process behind determining which direction to go in. Reading others' final dissertation proposals as examples doesn't provide this insight into the background thought process that can be very helpful.

This book is a nice resource for those that are embarking on using mixed method approaches. I think it is appropriate for graduate-level students and early career researchers, and would be a nice reference book for department resource library perhaps. Mixed methods is one of those areas where I see people struggle, so I think this would be a good reference and lay out a good solid strategy. It is peppered with good examples and does a good job of going step-by-step through developing a good research proposal.

I have a Ph.D. from a "baby ivy." I am five years removed from my successful dissertation defense. And, I can assure you, for most academics, the research now begins in earnest. So, reading this textbook as a published researcher and one who also teaches research methods to both undergraduate and graduate students, I'm not entirely certain that I can locate the ideal reader for this text. I noted some reviews mentioned this being helpful to dissertation research, but the information provided here is so reductive that I cannot imagine a Ph.D. student who would need it (i.e. who is so "lost" as to require this). Overall, the authors may have slightly missed their target-reader.Of the writing style: the authors make the mistake of using second-person pronouns throughout. This is a crucial error that is usually reserved to young people and quickly broken in a first-year composition class. The second-person becomes awkward and perhaps a bit too intimate (which is why most writers break that habit fairly quickly in their careers). Nonetheless, here it is.Moreover, while the text is relatively jargon-free (which is appropriate for the junior scholar), the subject matter is teased-out to the point of exhaustion (perhaps teased-out to "book length"). When a young researcher reaches this phase in his/her scholarly career, all of this knowledge has already been accumulated through a variety of classes. I suppose that this could guide a student who is struggling with his/her discipline, but most students in this situation are "removed" from their field before this can happen.I suppose there may be a niche audience for this piece. A struggling researcher may find some guidance here (but struggling researchers tend not to remain in their given disciplines for very long). Likewise, a student on a large campus without a devoted mentor (a professor assigned to that student to walk him/her through this process) may also find some guidance in this. Outside of this, most junior scholars will find this frustratingly redundant.

Thank you for publishing such a great book