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• Roles of Research

  1. Research aims for truth
  2. Research improves quality of human life
  3. Research improves humanity
  4. Research saves life
• Significance of Research

  1. Improve the quality of life
  2. Understand history
  3. Good contributor of knowledge
• Practical Personal Benefits of Research

  • Good decision maker
• 7 Characteristics of Research

  1. Systematic
  2. Controlled
  3. Inquiry
  4. Empirical
  5. New Knowledge
  6. Conclusion
  7. Effective Method
• Qualitative Research

  • uses open-ended questions which leads to gathering detailed and sufficient data
  • provides an understanding of opinions and experiences in words
  • allows you to explore concepts and life experiences in more detail
  • an emphasis on process
  • an openness of mind
  • concern with inductive analysis and grounded theory
  • zooms in the way people value their experiences


  Qualitative research seeks to answer, explain, and understand lived experiences of people in a particular situation.
• Scope and Limitation determines what is

  • going to cover
  • what it is focusing on
  • the duration of the study
  • the geographical location of the study
  • population or the sample that you are studying
• Significance of the Study


  It tells the readers how the conduct of the study will be useful to individuals, groups, or communities who may be beneficiaries of the study.
• Ethical Consideration


  • It is the criterion in the selection of research problems that refers to the security and safety among the participants.
  • You should make sure that you reduce any possible harm the minimum and maximize the benefits both to participants and other people.
• General Statement of the Problem


  It describes the topic and its significance and fills the research gap.
• Importance of Related Literature

  1. To identify your questions.
  2. To collect background information about a topic.
  3. To determine the similarities and differences of the findings between the past and present studies.
  4. To gain insights into the aspects of the problem that are critical and controversial.
  5. It describes how the proposed research is related to prior research.
  6. By organizing, integrating, and evaluating the published materials, the researcher considers how adequately the researcher has clarified the problem.
  7. It provides detailed information about all the aspect of the study.
• Reliable Resources


  textbooks, journals, and academic paper
• Unreliable Resources


  blogs, magazines, and website
• In-Text Citation


  This style of citing sources can be found anywhere in the research paper in between texts and/or end of the paragraph.
• APA In-text Citation Style

  It uses the author's last name and the year of publication.
• Narrative Citation


  Villamor (2023)
• Parenthetical Citation


  (Villamor, 2023)
• Synthesis

  • Combining parts and elements from a variety of sources into one unified entity and archiving new insight.
• Argumentative Synthesis


  It aims to put together sources to form an argument.
• Explanatory Synthesis


  It seeks to bring sources together to explain a perspective and the reasoning behind it.
• Quantitative Research

  • utilizes close-ended questions
  • provides numerical analysis and statistical data
  • deals with numbers and measurement