Conducting Research Author:Patrick J. Schloss, Maureen A. Smith Presents the research process in a step-by-step manner that provides a context for the discrete research skills. Each step of the research process is presented in a comprehensive manner to meet the needs of the beginning researcher. The authors provide sufficient detail readers need to conceptualize a problem, to review literature, to select a ... more »design, to conduct the study, and to report research findings. Beginner researchers in a variety of fields.« less