Writing Up Your Action Research Project

Students carrying out action research must learn how to be successful writers as well as researchers, and it is the disconnection between the two thatWriting up Your Action Research Project will help readers to address and overcome. Through detailed and practical advice supported by real-life case study material from a range of countries and disciplines, this book will equip students with the skills they need to confidently communicate their action research in writing.

Written with a specific focus on action research, the book explains and models the process of producing writing that reflects the core action research principles such as critical reflection, emancipatory practices and resistance to closure. Critical reflection and analysis are also interwoven into the core fabric of the text, providing readers with the opportunity to consider critical questions within each chapter, inviting them to actively analyse their ideas and responses to the text. Divided into 4 distinctive parts, key focuses include:

• understanding writing practices;

• engaging with literature;

• how to write up a project report or dissertation;

• how writing is judged in terms of professional and writing practices;

• developing ideas for further study and publication.

Writing up Your Action Research Project is an essential text for practitioners on professional education and undergraduate courses who want their writing to reflect the excellent of their research and is the ideal companion to the author’s bookYou and Your Action Research Project which is now in its third edition.

Jean McNiff is Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, UK. She also holds visiting professorial positions at Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers University, People’s Republic of China; the University of Tromso, Norway; and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. She has written widely on action research in education.

Jean also offers writing workshops and support on doing and writing practice-based research across disciplines and professions. She can be contacted atjeanmcniff@mac.com and through her website at www.jeanmcniff.com.