Qualitative res

• The title is brief or concise, not longer than seven substantive words and no more than three lines
• The title is written in ALL CAPS case
• The author can play with the title
• If the title of the research problem seems "featurized", the first paragraph must be devoted to explaining the title
• Direct "quotation" must not be written as the first paragraph, instead this can be rephrased to add substance to the details of the problem
• The succeeding paragraph must come from the researcher's own idea, and must not be copied from any article
• Describing the problem situation

  1. Consider global, national, and local forces

  2. Discuss from macro to micro

  3. Emphasize situations using facts and statistics

  4. Provide sources
• Describing the local scenario

  1. Cite local observations and studies

  2. Emphasize the local scenario to warrant the existence of the research

  3. Provide more discussions and description
• Make a clinching statement paragraph that relates or emphasizes the situational analysis to the proposed study
• Ensure coherence of ideas within and among paragraphs and across sentences
• End with the main objective of the study
• These discussions must have sources
• (Comprehensive)


  It gives the thrust of the research
• Spacing


  Unless otherwise specified, all texts should be 1.5 in spacing
• Type and size of paper


  short bond paper A4
• Typeface and font size

  bookman old style; 11
• Margins


  top and left 1 1/2 inch; right and bottom 1 inch
• Border lines should not be shown
• Indentations


  paragraph indentation should be 5-7 spaces or the normal tab default
• Justification/Alignment


  All text must be fully justified
• Good Qualities of Research

  • Verifiable
  • Relevant
  • Interesting
  • Focused
  • Plausible
• focused


  too broad= a lot of variable
• Parts of speech


  • noun
  • pronoun
  • verb
  • adverb
  • adjective
  • preposition
  • conjunction
  • interjection
• Adjective


  describes nouns/pronoun (e.g loud, fast, good/bad, cold etc.)
• Preposition


  to show direction, time, place, location (ex: in, on, at, beside
• Conjunction


  Joins words, phrases or clauses (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S)
• Interjection


  shows expresses feeling (ex: wow!, yikes, whoop)