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• WHY IS RESEARCH IMPORTANT?

  WELL THE MAIN PURPOSE OF RESEARCH IS TO INFROM ACTION, TO PROVE A THEORY, AND CONTRIBUTE TO DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE IN A FIELD OR STUDY. RESEARCH IS REQUIRED NOT JUST FOR STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS, BUT FOR ALL PROFESSIONALS AND NON PROFESSIONALS ONLINE
• WHAT IS RESEARCH?

  RESEARCH CAN BE DEFINED AS "SYSTEMATIC AND SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE OF DATA COLLECTION, COMPILATION, ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION, AND IMPLICATION PERTAINING TO ANY PROBLEM
• QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH 


  DESCRIBES, INFERS, AND RESOLVE PROBLEMS USING NUMBERS. EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON THE COLLECTION OF NUMERICAL DATA, THE SUMMARY OF THOSE DATA AND THE DRAWING OF INFERENCES FROM THE DATA
• QUALITATIVE RESEARCH


  BASED ON WORDS, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, SOUNDS, AND OTHER NON-NUMERICAL AND UNQUANTITIABLE ELEMENTS. IT HAS BEEN NOTED THAT INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED IN NATURE IF IT CANNOT BE ANALYZED BY MEANS OF MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES
• RESEARCH IS COLLECTING DATA AND INFORMATION, LEARNING, AND FINDING NEW THINGS. IT IS ALSO ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE WHICH FOLLOWS SYSTEMATIC PROCESS OF COLLECTING AND ANALYZING INFORMATION IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND MORE THE PHENOMENA UNDER STUDY
• CONCEPT IS A TERM THAT ABSTRACTLY DESCRIBES AND NAMES AN OBJECT, A PHENOMENON OR AN IDEA
• THEORY IS AN ORGANIZED BODY OF CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES INTENDED TO EXPLAIN PARTICULAR PHENOMENON
• QUANTITATIVE METHOD IS A METHOD THAT FOCUSES ON NUMBERS, OBJECTIVE, HAND DATA. IT PROVES HYPOTHESIS BY STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD. IT IS CALLED FORMAL, OBJECTIVE, SYSTEMATIC PROCESS IN WHICH NUMERICAL DATA IS USED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD. IT IS USED TO DESCRIBE VARIABLES. IT EXAMINES RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VARIABLES.
• QUALITATIVE METHOD USES WORDS INSTEAD OF NUMBERS TO DISPLAY DATA. IT FOCUSES ON FEELINGS NOT NUMERICAL DATA. SMALL AMOUNT OF PARTICIPANTS INVOLVE IN A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDY. THIS KIND OF RESEARCH METHOD UTILIZES INTERVIEWS, ARCHIVED WRITTEN INFORMATION, AND OBSERVATIONS TO MEASURE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES
• VARIABLES ARE ANY QUALITY OF A PERSON, GROUP SUBJECT, EVENT, CONDITION, OR SITUATION THAT VARIES OR TAKES ON DIFFERENT VALUES
• HYPOTHESIS IS A LOGICAL SUPPOSITION, A REASONABLE GUESS, AND EDUCATED CONJECTURE. IT PROVIDES A TENTATIVE EXPLANATION OF A PHENOMENON UNDER INVESTIGATION
• SAMPLING IS THE PROCESS OF SELECTING PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF A LARGER POPULATION TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF A LARGER POPULATION
• SMART IS A GOOD WAY TO REMEMBER FUNDAMENTALS OF A RESEARCH PAPER WRITING, AND TO HELP PREPARE AN AUTHOR IN WRITING A SUCCESFUL RESEARCH PAPER
• SPECIFIC - A RESEARCH PAPER SHOULD BE SPECIFIC. IT SHOULD MAINTAIN ITS FOCUS ON THE GIVEN SUBJECT OF RESEARCH- ANSWERING A SPECIFIC RESEARCH QUESTION, AND NOT BE INCONSISTENT OR AIMLESS AS TO CONVEY INFORMATION OR MAKE CLAIMS ON OTHER, UNRELATED TOPICS/SUBJECT
• MEASURABLE - A RESEARCH PAPER MUST CONTAIN SPECIFIC, PROVEN RESEARCH, AND CITES ALL RESEARCH SOURCES AND RELATED LITERATURE
• ATTAINABLE- A RESEARCH PAPER MUST PROVIDE A THESIS STATEMENT, ONE THAT ANSWERS RESEARCH QUESTION AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GIVEN SUBJECT. IT CANT PROPOSE TO ANSWER A QUESTION THAT DOESNT RELATE TO REAL LIFE OR ISNT BASED ON AN EXISTING BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
• REALISTIC - A RESEARCH PAPER IS OBJECTIVE AND REALISTIC. SHOULD IT BE MUST BE PRESENT INTERPRETATUONS, ARGUMENTS, OR EVALUATIONS, THEN IT SHOULD DO SO BASED ON VALID EVIDENCES FROM RELIABLE SOURCES
• TIME - A RESEARCH PAPER CANNOT BE WRITTEN WITHOUT THE RESEARCHER KNOWING THE LIMITS, TIMEFRAMES, AND FOCUS OF THE REQUIRED WORK WITHOUT THE WRITER/ RESEARCHER STATING THE SCOPE AND LIMITATION ON THE RESEARCHER RESEARCH PAPER, IT IS LIKELY THAT THE THESIS STATEMENT WILL BE HAMPERED AN INABILITY TO ANSWER THE GIVEN RESEARCH QUESTION OR FOCUSON THE GIVEN RESEARCH SUBJECT
• QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

  • FOCUSES ON TESTING THEORIES AND HYPOTHESIS
  • IS ANALYZED THROUGH MATH AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
  • MAIN EXPRESSED IN NUMBERS, GRAPHS, AND TABLES
  • REQUIRES MANY RESPONDENTS
  • CLOSED(MULTIPLE CHOICE) QUESTIONS
  • KEY TERMS: TESTING MEASUREMENTS, OBJECTIVITY AND REPLICABILITY
• QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

  • FOCUSES ON EXPLORING IDEAS AND FORMULATING A THEORY OR HYPOTHESIS
  • IS ANALYZED BY SUMMARIZING, CATEGORIZING AND INTERPRETING
  • MAINLY EXPRESSED IN WORDS
  • REQUIRES FEW RESPONDENTS
  • OPEN MINDED QUESTIONS
  • KEY TERMS : UNDERSTANDING, CONTEXT, COMPLEXITY, SUBJECTIVITY