Doing your Research Project in Sport

by Chris Lynch

• ISBN13: 9781844451647
• ISBN10: 184445164X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781844456468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-17
• Publisher: Learning Matters
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Summary

Undertaking a research project can be an exciting and rewarding experience. But it can all too easily lead to stress and disappointment. Mistakes made early in the process in the design of experiments, for example can lead to frustration later on. Researching Sport and Exercise provides a "guide by your side," leading students from the early stages of their research (identifying problems and designing questions) right through to the presentation of findings. In the process, author Chris Lynch draws on his extensive experience of supervising students' research to provide a practical and reader-friendly guide.~

Author Biography

Chris Lynch teaches at Sheffield College, where he is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science. He has extensive experience of teaching research methods to students on higher education courses and supervising their research projects. Chris is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of BASES.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Getting to the start Line	p. 1
Your research project and this book	p. 3
Getting to the start line: the basis of research	p. 6
Identifying problems and developing the research question	p. 19
Searching for and reading research to write a literature review	p. 33
Designing an experiment	p. 52
Non-experimental research	p. 69
Writing the why	p. 78
You're off	p. 91
You're off: making ethics applications	p. 93
Writing the how	p. 104
Data analysis	p. 112
Crossing the finishing line	p. 125
Wriring what you have found	p. 127
Writing the so what	p. 135
Crossing the finishing line	p. 145
Appendix: writing-up checklist	p. 151
References	p. 152
Index	p. 153
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