RESEARCH

• Technical terms


  Words that you rarely read or heard unless you are to start with your research paper writing
• Purpose of getting familiar with technical terminologies


  • Great help for you might also encounter them in the next step of your learning
• Technical terms


  Words that explain about research concept, with a specific meaning only intended for its purpose
• Technical and scientific writing uses technical terms as essential parts
• Technical terms are often thought of as shorthand, a way of gaining great depth and accuracy of meaning
• Research


  The attempt to derive generalizable new knowledge by addressing clearly defined questions with systematic and rigorous methods
• Statement of the problem


  Part of the research paper that enumerates the research questions, used as a claim that outlines the problem addressed by a study
• Significance of the study

  Identifies the beneficiaries of the research and how they will benefit from it, written as part of the introduction section of a thesis
• Thesis Statement


  One sentence that expresses the main idea of a research paper, focusing ideas into one or two sentences and presenting the topic and the writer's position
• Introduction


  • Leads the reader from a general subject area to a particular topic of inquiry, establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research, summarizes current understanding, states the purpose, explains the methodological approach, highlights potential outcomes, and outlines the remaining structure
• Review of Related Literature


  • Summarizes the previous findings about the research topic and identifies the gaps in the literature, a detailed review of existing literature relevant to the topic
• Methodology


  • Identifies the design, sample, instrument and procedures that will be used in research, allows the reader to critically evaluate a study's overall validity and reliability
• Analysis


  • Involves examining and processing research data, in order to answer the questions that the study is trying to address, identifying patterns and drawing out the main themes
• Conclusion

  • Helps the reader understand why the research should matter to them, a synthesis of key points rather than just a summary
• Questionnaires


  A prepared set of written questions used to obtain information from research participants
• Interviewing


  A controversial practice where knowledge is produced through the interaction between an interviewer and an interviewee or a group of interviewees
• Survey

  A study measuring the distribution of some characteristic(s) in a population at a particular point in time
• Respondents

  Those persons who have been invited to participate in a particular study and have actually taken part in the study
• Primary Sources

  Provide direct or first-hand evidence, anything that gives you direct evidence about people, events or phenomena
• Primary Sources

  • autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, personal letters, photographs, audio recordings, statistical data
• Secondary Sources

  Describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, process primary sources
• Secondary Sources

  • biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, news articles, movie reviews
• Research question


  A question that a research project sets out to answer, helps writers focus their research by providing a path through the research and writing process
• Interview Guide

  Summarizes the content that researchers cover during interviews
• Outline

  A formal system used to develop a framework for thinking about what the organization and eventual contents of your paper should be
• Abstract

  A brief summary of a research study and its results, telling why the study was done, how the researchers went about it and what they found
• References

  Lists of primary and secondary sources used in research, so readers can easily find what has been cited
• Bibliography

  Lists of works (such as books and articles) written on a particular subject or by a particular author, can also be referred to as a list of works cited
• APA

  A style commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences
• Technical words play a role in replacing the common words that are used to describe it
• Without technical words, we cannot describe or communicate the right information to others
• To be specific in the core field, technical words are used
• Terminology plays an important role in the understanding of contexts and specialized texts
• Understanding the intricate terminological details of the technical and scientific contexts helps students comprehend the main message of the document, and helps specialists to transmit the content more effectively
• Research

  An art of scientific investigation, a careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern or issue using the scientific method, regarded as a systematic effort to gain new knowledge
• Research paper


  A piece of academic writing that provides analysis, interpretation and argument based on in-depth independent research
• Abstract


  A short summary of your completed research intended to describe your work without going into detail, should be self-contained and concise
• Introduction


  Leads the reader from a general subject area to a particular topic of inquiry, establishes the scope, context and significance of the research, summarizes current understanding and background information, states the purpose and research problem, explains the methodological approach, highlights potential outcomes, and outlines the structure of the paper
• Literature review


  Provides an overview of sources explored including books, scholarly articles and other relevant sources to demonstrate how the research fits within a larger field of study and gives a clear picture of the state of knowledge on the subject
• Hypothesis


  A statement of expectation or prediction that will be tested by research, the researcher's intellectual guess about the possible result of the study