1: The Importance of Research in Daily Life

• an intelligent researcher is honest in gathering data or facts in order to arrive at honest and valid results

  Intellectual Honesty
• This type of research aims to increase your knowledge about something. it also deals with concepts, principles, or abstract things

  Pure Research
• This type of research aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal or picture of a person, thing, event, group, situation, etc.

  Descriptive Research
• shows relationships or connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables that affect the research

  Correlational Research
• combining these two approaches in designing your research

  Triangulation Approach
• location of the study

  geographical conditions of the study locale
• describe the existence of an unsatisfactory condition or a problem that needs a solution

  presentation of the problem
• why the study should be conducted

  rationale
• is defined as "written works"

  literature
• is an oral or written record of man's significant experiences that are artistically conveyed in a prosaic manner

  literature
• inquiries or investigations already conducted to which the present proposed study is related or has some bearing or similarity

  related studies
• gives the researcher a complete understanding of what is known about a given topic

  related literature
• which means methodical, is a style of RRL that invloves sequential acts of a review of related literature

  systematic review of literature
• is way to summarize present forms of knowledge on a specific subject

  traditional review of literature
• prepares a situation for a future research work in form of project making about community development, government policies, and health services, among others

  scoping review
• focuses on theories or hypotheses and examines meanings and results of their application to situations

  critical review
• encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL because of the influence of a certain ideology, paradigm, or belief on him/her

  expert review
• analysis of concepts or ideas to give meaning to some national or world issues

  conceptual review
• makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the subject

  state-of-the-Art review
• are the reports of a person who relates the testimony of an actual witness or participants

  secondary source
• articles or reports written by those who actually conducted the research or the literature itself such as research journals that are published monthly, quarterly or yearly

  primary source
• are those compelled from

  tertiary source
• references within the main body of the text

  citation or In-text citation
• the beginning portion of the work that identifies individuals who have contributed something for the production of the paper

  acknowledgment
• a complete list of all reading materials

  references or bibliography
• patterns of citations is also called_

  mechanics of note taking
• this is the antithesis of the first one because, here, instead of shortening the form of the text, you explain what the text means to you using your own words

  Paraphrase
• this citation is a passage referred to or repeated

  quotation
• the citation in this case is a shortened version of the original text that is expressed in your own language

  summary
• this citation is determining the value, nature, character, or quality of topic

  evaluation
• this second citation style downplays any strength of the writer's personal characteristics

  non-integral citation
• this is one way of citing or referring to the author whose ideas appear in your work

  integral citation
• ed.

  edition
• eds.

  editors
• n.d.

  no date
• n.p.

  no page numbers
• no

  number
• et al.

  and others
• p.

  page
• p.p.

  multiple pages