Research Methods for Social Work With Infotrac

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Summary: Just the main points, please!
Review: I'm taking a research methods course right now and, unfortunately, this is the book that was assigned. The chapters are too long and the authors make things more complex by trying to include too many examples and unnecessary filler material. Research methods is boring anyway, but Rubin and Babbie make learning about it more boring and confusing by not getting straight to the point. I have a "quiz" next week and you don't know how tedious it is read through these chapters. I had to learn how to speed read in order to save time and find the important information.Thank goodness the book is at least organized.

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Summary: Difficult to read
Review: This book is really long winded and boring. It rambles a lot and is quite incoherent, though I would give it some credit for trying to sound personable. The chapter on inferential statistics, especially isn't very clear which makes it even more frustrating because stats is already quite a dry topic.

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Summary: Rubin & Babbie
Review: This book was assigned as a text for my Social Work research class. The entire class found the book very wordy, chapters were too long and hard to focus on. As a professional the book would probably be helpful for self-teaching, but as a text book, it will bore your students to tears.