English 10

• An art of scientific investigation

  Research
• A piece of academic writing that provides, analysis, interpretation and argument

  Research Paper
• A short summary of your completed research

  Abstract
• The next part after the title and abstract

  Introduction
• Provides an overview of sources

  Literature review
• Commonly known as the researcher's Intellectual guess or wild guess

  Hypothesis
• ■ The systematic method to resolve a research problem through data gathering using various techniques, providing an interpretation of data gathered, and drawing conclusions about the research data.

  Methodology
• • The entire group that you want to draw conclusions about. ■ In research, it doesn't always refer to people. It can mean a group containing elements of anything you want to study, such as objects, events, organizations, countries, species, organisms, etc.

  Population
• ■ a smaller part or subgroup of the population • The specific group within a population that you will collect data from. • The group of individuals who will participate in your study. They are the ones who will answer surveys or interviews.

  Sample
• Four reason for sampling

  Necessity

  Practicality

  Cost-effectiveness

  Manageability
• 15 Various ways of giving expanded definition

  Description

  Process narration

  Additional definition

  Cause/causes

  Effects, results, consequence

  Problem-solution

  Statistics

  Uses, applications

  Similarities, differences,analogies

  Classes, types, categories

  Examples

  Etymology

  Negatives

  Advantage and disadvantage
• refers to a document that systematically, coherently, and methodologically presents the research work in written form

  Research report
• Summarizes the entire study. comes at the beginning of the paper provides a very short overview of the entire paper, including: ■ a sentence or two about the report's purpose and importance ■ a sentence or two about your methods ■ a few sentences that present the main findings ■ and a sentence or two about the implications of your findings https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/guides/writing-an-imrad-report

  Abstract
• • Makes a case for your research. provides the purpose of the report provides background information about the research topic Review of Related Literature (RRL) is usually included in this section.

  Introduction
• tells the readers how you conducted your study includes information about: Method used (qualitative or quantitative) Instrument (survey, questionnaire, etc) Population (target market) Sampling technique ✓ Procedures (data gathering/collection) Statistical Treatment (if quantitative) should enable readers to duplicate your study written in past tense, and uses a lot of passive voice typically, the least read section of an IMRaD report https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/guides/writing-an-imrad-

  Methods
• presents your findings should directly answer the research questions which are imposed in the introduction contains only the findings (no interpretations should be included) All tables and figures should be labeled and numbered separately.

  Results
• summarizes your main findings discusses the relevance of the results how the findings fit with other research studies shows the implications of the results point by point and with proper evidence as well limitations of your study CONCLUSION + RECOMMENDATIONS

  Discussion