4th English

• Research


  A careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue using the scientific method
• Logical


  • Making sense of things or putting puzzle pieces together to figure out
• Analytical


  • Examined deeply and seriously to determine great understanding and discovery about things
• Cyclical


  • Process keeps on going back to its origin which is the problem
• Critical


  • Drawn careful and precise scrutiny of procedures and methods to be able to withstand criticism and come up with a judgement
• Replicability


  • The research design are repeated and procedures are replicated or repeated
• Empirical


  • Generating new knowledge or technology from actual sensory observation, experience and not derived from the application of theory and logic
• Quantitative research


  Describes, infers, and resolves problems using numbers
• Qualitative research


  Based on words, feelings, emotion, sounds, and other non numerical and unquantifiable elements
• Abstract


  A short summary of your completed research
• Introduction


  It leads the reader from a general subject area to a particular topic of inquiry
• Literature review


  Provides overview of sources you have explored including books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant
• Hypothesis


  A statement of expectation or prediction that will be tested by research
• Methodology


  The systematic method to resolve a research problem through data gathering using various techniques
• Population


  The entire group you want to draw conclusions about
• Sample

  A smaller part or subgroup of population
• Respondents

  Answer to questionnaires, quantitative research
• Participants


  Participate and answer questions in qualitative research, gives more detailed answers
• Subjects


  The people in the research's experiment
• Variable


  Any factor, trait or condition that can be manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an experiment
• Instrument


  Any tool that you may use to collect data, measure data and analyze data
• Questionnaire


  The main instrument for collecting data in survey research
• Data


  Any information that has been collected, observed, generated, or created
• Results


  The authors provide the data collected during their study
• Discussion


  To interpret and describe the significance of your findings
• Conclusion


  Intended to help the readers to understand why your research should matter to them
• Reference


  Lists of all the resources you used in your study
• Appendix


  Serve as a space for materials that help clarify your research