"In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean McNiff provides a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the practical aspects of writing and doing action research. The book contains excerpts taken from action research projects in a range of settings and presents exercises to help you develop successful written accounts of your research. Writing and Doing Action Research is an essential text for anyone working with action research, providing vital guidance on the preparation and production of texts, how this type of work is assessed and enabling you to get the best results from your research"--Publisher's website.

What do you need to know about action research in order to write it? --What do you need to know to write action research? Why do you need to know it? -- What do you write in an action research text? -- What is the form of an action research text? -- Becoming a writer -- Writing a good quality text -- Planning for the production of texts -- Writing proposals -- Masters and doctoral dissertations and theses -- How will the quality of your action research dissertation/thesis be judged? -- Writing for academic and professional journals -- Writing your first academic book -- The significance of your action research text -- Some implications -- Where next?.