Technical Terms in Research

• Literature Review - It provides a review of what other researchers have written or researched concerning the topic.
• Introduction - It presents the background information, scope, and focus of the research paper.
• Abstract - This is a brief summary of the research study and its result.
• Title - It summarizes the main idea of your study
• Theory - It refers to the general explanation about a specific behavior based on known principles and organizes related events in a meaningful way.
• Discussion - It interprets and describes the significance of your findings in light of was already known about the research problem being investigated.
• Conceptual Framework - It offers a logical structure of connected concepts that helps provide a picture or visual display of how ideas in a study relate to one another within the theoretical framework (Grant & Osanloo, 2014)..
• Conclusion - It is not merely a summary of points or a restatement of your research problem but a synthesis of key points.
• Data - It is the factual information used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation.
• Methodology - It refers to the systematic approaches in conducting an operation or process.
• Research Design - It refers to the game plan or method for finding out what the researcher wants to know.
• Reference - It is the list of all the sources used in research.
• Plagiarism - It is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.
• Chapter 1 - Research Problem and Its Background
• Chapter 5 - Summary of Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations
• Chapter 4 - Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation
• Chapter 3 - Research Methodology
• Chapter 2 - Review of Related Literature
• Research - It is an organized, systematic search for knowledge.