Language of Research, Campaigns and Advocacies

• research is an imperative area in not just the field of education, but in other fields as well.
• research primarily focuses upon improving quality and is a research for knowledge
• research shows how to make provisions of solutions to a problem in a scientific and

  methodical manner
• Learning the language of research can help you understand research answers to important problems. It can also help you read academic texts (and tests) more easily.
• the research process:

  1. question/problem
  2. observation
  3. experiment
  4. analyze edata
  5. publish data, procedures, and conclusiosn
• design it is to plan (or a plan of) how something will be made or done.
• Data these are collected facts or information.
• Significance are important data and meaningful findings in a research and the benefitors
• Evidence observations or information that can help solve a crime or show whether something is true or false.
• Treatment is the course of action designed for research
• Experiment is a test to see what happens when all factors (variables) but one is controlled.
• Conclusion is a summary of what has been learned or shown at the end of a study.
• observation is looking carefully at something
• statistics is the organization and study of numerical data
• Campaign can be a single ad or a series of ads. It has ads that revolve around a single idea.
• Campaign provides a framework in which processes of advocacy can be easily developed and enclosed.

  It has varying purposes, they are created using similar structures, as well as through the use of persuasive language in order to convince audiences to perform a certain function.
• 5 dimensions of a campaign

  1. Awareness raising
  2. Research
  3. Social Mobilization
  4. Training
  5. Lobbying
• Awareness Raising is intended to make the problem to be addressed known by the general public.
• Research another dimension that is based on research, since it provides the necessary knowledge to take action.
• Social Mobilization – these are used by grassroots-based social movements, but also as a tool for the elite and the state itself.
• Training is the process focused on a clear and specific target. It further develops the contents, but also the scope and the vision.

  It runs in a mid-term and long-term scenario to get in-depth into

  the topic. It completes the information-understanding cycle.
• Lobbying is an act to influence decisions made by officials in the government.
• A grassroots movement is a political or economic movement that uses the people of a community, region, or district as its basis. 

  Grassroots movements and organizations use local collective action to implement change at the local, regional, national, or international levels. 
• advocacy is an action for a cause or purpose
• Advocacy and Campaign are sometimes seen as synonymous terms, both are terms for all forms of influencing or convincing others.
• self-advocacy is to speak up and ask for what you need. It helps you take charge of your life and be more independent
• accomodations are Changes that can be made that will help you succeed or reach your goals
• steps in requesting for accomodations

  • F – face the person in-charge
  • E – maintain eye-contact
  • S – state the accommodation and the reason
  • T – thank the person
  • A – accommodation is used