Class 10

• • Quantitative research • Data collection, analysis, and theory development are separate stages.
• References should be cited accurately and using the most appropriate style for your discipline.
• The confidentiality of the information given and the anonymity of informants and other research participants should be maintained.
• Appendices and references should be fulfilled and maintained.
• All primary data should be secured and later destroyed.
• Identifying research questions involves using your teacher and TA, managing time and resources, and formulating a research question that is clear, researchable, relates to established theory and research, is linked or closely related to each other, allows the researcher to make a contribution to existing knowledge, and is neither too broad nor too narrow.
• Formulating a research question involves understanding the qualitative or quantitative orientations of the study, ensuring the research question is clear, researchable, relates to established theory and research, is linked or closely related to each other, allows the researcher to make a contribution to existing knowledge, and is neither too broad nor too narrow.
• Research questions should be formulated in a way that they guide the literature search, limit the scope of the project, guide what data to collect, guide the data analysis, and guide the writing up of findings.
• Specific research questions are necessary as they guide the literature search, limit the scope of the project, guide what data to collect, guide the data analysis, and guide the writing up of findings.
• Marx (1997) suggested several sources from which research questions can emerge: intellectual puzzles and contradictions, the existing literature, a social problem in need of sociological explanation, gaps between “official” versions of reality, new social developments and trends, and other.
• Managing time and resources in research involves becoming familiar with any software that will be used, not jeopardizing personal safety, and understanding the potential for ambient, situational, and inadvertent danger.
• The literature review in a research project situates the topic and position in relation to the existent literature, identifies what is already known on the topic, discusses relevant concepts and theories, helps choose appropriate research methods, highlights gaps, inconsistencies in knowledge, and addresses controversies.
• A literature review should develop a story and an argument, convey the relevance and significance of research, refer to prominent writings in the field, highlight the contribution that will be made, explain how gaps or problems identified in the literature correspond to current research questions, and develop the literature review in such a way as to highlight the contribution that will be made.
• The discussion section of a research project restates main arguments, addresses limitations, suggests potential for future research, and does not speculate or discuss new issues.
• The research methods section of a research project should include an overview of how the data was collected and procedures for analysis, justification for methods chosen, and specific procedures used.
• The results section of a research project presents main findings, discusses implications, speculates on reasons, and links findings to the literature.
• A typical research project consists of an introduction, background, research methods, results, discussion, conclusion, and appendix and bibliography.
• The purpose of a research project is to explain what is being written about and why it is important, describe the theoretical perspective chosen, explain research questions, and give a quick and clear indication of what will be presented.
• The conclusion section of a research project may include appendices, detailed material not included in the paper, such as questionnaires, coding frames, observation schedules, letters sent to those sampled, letters to and from gate-keepers, etc.
• Good research questions are derived from a topic that interests you, are clear, researchable, relate to established theory and research, are linked logically to each other, and will make an original contribution to existing knowledge on the topic.
• Research questions guide the literature search, limit the scope of the project, guide what data to collect, guide the data analysis, and guide the writing up of findings, reducing the risk of loosing focus.
• In URBS 260 ANALYTICAL METHODS IN URBAN STUDIES 5A, the research problem is defined and research questions are identified.