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• Research


  Establishes facts through a systematic investigation
• Research title


  Topic that researcher finds interesting when conducting research
• Abstract


  Summarizes all sections and helps the reader decide whether or not to read the entire report
• Introduction


  Chapter 1 along with background information of data. Presents background information, and focus of the research paper
• Literature review


  Chapter 2. Reviews other related studies such as published books and other research. It also identifies gaps and establishes the need to support the study.
• Methodology


  Chapter 3. Explains how the research was conducted. Research instrument. Research design, population and sampling procedure
• Discussion


  Presents the information gathered through the research. Chapter 4 along with presentation, interpretation
• Conclusion


  Summary of the research. Brings report to closure. Chapter 5 along with recommendations
• Cultural mapping


  Refers to a research tool to understand the cultural assets
• Interview


  Conversational practice
• Interview guide


  Summarizes content that a researcher covers during an interview
• Questionnaire


  Set of questions in a survey
• Survey


  Statistical analysis of answers to a poll of a sample of a population
• Plagiarism


  Information or pictures are used without proper acknowledgement of the original source
• Reference


  List of all sources used in research
• Appendix


  Contains related information such as graphs, charts, tables, lists
• Term


  Word, phrase, to be defined
• Class


  Concept to which the term belongs
• Differentiating characteristics


  Distinguish it from the rest of its class
• A dictionary includes the definition of words in contrast to a thesaurus that includes synonyms of words
• Grammar


  System or rules of a language
• Technical definition


  Specialized definition to explain a concept.
• Operational definition


  Specifies how a word is being used to a concept
• Research report


  Completed study that reports an investigation or exploration of a problem. Prepared after a study is completed. Communicates what was actually done in a study. Primary source. Reports the methods and results
• Research proposal


  Prepared before a study. Communicates a researcher's plan for a study
• Article


  Secondary source. Does not report original research by the author
• Citation styles


  • Chicago style - notes system (for arts, humanities, history)
  • American Psychological Association (APA) - set of guidelines that an editor follows to certify clear and consistent production of written text
• Rephrased information - write the author's surname appended by the copyright year enclosed in parenthesis in the sentence
• Hypothesis a proposed prediction that can be tested
• Qualitative Research unravel the nature of phenomena
• Sampling to select a representative subset of a population for study
• Control Group a group used for comparison that does not get the same treatment
• Reliability consistency and stability of measurement and results
• Informed consent the respondent is aware of the purpose and focus of the study, survey, questionnaire, or interview and permits the researcher
• bias the tendency of researchers to manipulate data to fit their hypothesis
• Interpretation analyzing data and drawing conclusions
• Randomization to eliminate bias and ensure each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any group
• citations its purpose is to avoid plagiarism
• Ephemeral temporary or short-lived
• Ubiquitous present everywhere or widespread