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Patten, Mildred L. 2014. Understanding Research Methods 9th Ed. Pyrczak Publishing
1.This book review should be two-three pages in length. Your reflective reviews should answer the following three questions: What did the writer of the book try to communicate?; How clearly and convincingly did he or she get this message across?; and Was the message worth reading? Your reflective review should contain the following four elements:
NOTE: look back in your notes and hand-outs on how to write a book review.
2. Please write an article review (20 points)
You will be reviewing the article used previously in this class on gun violence:
Robert Birnbaum. 2013. “Ready, Fire, Aim: The College Campus Gun Fight.” Change 45 (5): 6-14.
< http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2013/September-October%202013/gun-fight-full.html>
Typically, there are five areas or tasks to be accomplished when someone writes a critique of an article. Your critique should be two to three pages in length. Your critique should include the following elements:
- a. Evaluate the thesis
- b. Evaluate the methods used
- c. Evaluate whether there was enough evidence to support the thesis
- d. Evaluate the contributions to the literature the article makes
- e. Make recommendations by telling readers who would benefit from reading the article, what that benefit would be, and how important and to what degree this benefit would be
3. Please write a descriptive 100-word abstract, (in your own words) for the Robert Birnbaum (2013) Ready, Fire, Aim: The College Campus Gun Fight article used in question two above (6 points).
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Book Review
"Understanding Research Methods 9th Edition" is a book that was written by Patten,
Mildred and was published in the year 2014. In his book, Patten explains in detail the concept
behind research methods such as Empirical Research, Experimental, No experimental Studies,
Quantitative and Qualitative Research among others. The book as well covers Reviewing
Literature, how to insert In-Text Citations and Reference Lists, Sampling, Measurement and
Experimental design.
The book is designed for those students who are losing all sense of direction in the points
of interest of research methods and those who not comprehending the overall picture of research
methods. Pattern in his book provides a detailed insight of the fundamental ideas that have been
covered in the research method class.
Pattern uses well-demonstrated examples on contemporary topics which stimulate the
student to have an interest in research methods and demonstrate the relevance of research
techniques to in their daily activities. The book is subdivided into several sections that make it
understand the concept. Also, Pattern convincingly brings his message across by enabling the
students to be in a position to interpret statistics without computations. Factual Questions at the
end of each topic give the students a chance to test their understanding of the concept. In addition
to the factual questions, there are questions for discussions that are essential in stimulating the
classroom dialogue.
I would say that the book is worthy reading because it is a simple book to peruse and it is
sorted out with basic topics. It is straightforward the topic about research techniques. I preferred
that it was basic and extremely clear clarifications of the research basics. The topics are well
thoroughly considered and set. The awesome illustrations and the subject inquiries add to the
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handiness of the book. The author took what could be a confounded subject and broke it into
straightforward pieces. It is an awesome approach to begin finding out about research
techniques. Indeed the book can be utilized by beginners or by more advanced people who
simply require understanding about research methods.
Now if one needs to have a deep understanding of the basics of research techniques, then
this book is a standout amongst the most effectively grasped, efficient books. The author
separates everything by effectively referenced points gathered in areas. It is a decent asset to
proceed and bolster strategies for research in the quest for a higher degree in statistics.
However, this book is the same than the less expensive, 7th edition. The 7th edition is
from 2009, and this 9th Edition is from 2014. I had both dupli...