LESSON 3: THE VALUE OF
RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF
INTEREST
CHAPTER 3: IDENTIFYING THE INQUIRY AND STATING THE PROBLEM
TITLE FORMULATION
GUIDELINES IN CHOOSING A RESEARCH
TITLE
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Interest in the subject matter. Your interest in A topic may be caused by your
rich background knowledge about it and by its novelty; meaning, its unfamiliarity to
you.
Availability of information. Collecting A lot of information as evidence to support
your claims about your subject matter from varied forms of literature like books,
journals, and newspapers among others, is a part and parcel of any research work.
GUIDELINES IN CHOOSING A RESEARCH
TITLE
• Timeliness and relevance of the topic. The topic is relevant if it is yields results
that are instrumental in societal improvement. It is timely if it is related to the present.
For instance, unless it is A pure or historical research, A research on the ins and outs
of people’s revolutionary acts will prosper more if it tackles the contemporary
revolutionary actions rather than those in the ancient time.
GUIDELINES IN CHOOSING A RESEARCH
TITLE
• Limitations on the subject. This makes you link your choosing with course
requirements.
For example, to make you complete the requirements, your teacher instructs you to
submit a paper that will apply the key principles you learned in business, psychology,
education and so on.
• Personal resources. Before sticking fully to your final choice, assess your research
abilities in terms of your financial standing, health condition, mental capacity, needed
facilities, and tie allotment to enable you to complete your research
RESEARCH TOPICS TO BE AVOIDED
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Controversial topics. These are topics that depend greatly on the writer’s
opinion, which may tend to be biased or prejudicial. Facts cannot support topics
like these.
Highly technical subjects. For a beginner, researching on topics that require an
advanced study, technical knowledge, and vast experience is a very difficult
Hard-to-investigate subjects. A subject is hard to investigate if there are no
available reading materials about and if such materials are not up-to-date.
RESEARCH TOPICS TO BE AVOIDED
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Too broad subjects. Topics that are too broad will prevent you from
giving a concentrated or an in-depth analysis of the subject matter of the
paper. The remedy to this is to narrow or limit the topic to a smaller one.
Too narrow subjects. These subjects are so limited or specific that an
extensive or thorough searching or reading for information about these is
necessary.
Vague subjects. Choosing topics like these will prevent you from having
a clear focus on your paper.
RULES IN WRITING A RESEARCH TITLE
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Original, clear, concise and specific.
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It is written in ALL-CAPS and bold face.
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It is no longer than 20-24 substantive words and no more than three lines written in
inverted pyramid.
Example:
• HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS IN READING OF THE SELECTED FIRST
YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES
• THE EFFECTS OF MOBILE LEGENDS TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF
GRADE 12 STUDENTS IN GENECOM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
General formatting
•Paper size. All final reports must be printed on a letter size (8.5 x 11 inches)
(short bond paper)
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•Margin. The paper margin should be 1 inch on top, bottom and right side of
the paper and 1.5 inch margin on the left side.
•Font. Use times new roman, size 11, all “regular”. Titles must be bold,
subtitles italicized and headers and footers CAPITALIZED.
RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
General formatting
•Spacing. It must be 1.5 except appendices and table of contents, which are singlespaced.
•Headers, footers, and pagination. The title page must not be formatted with a header,
footer, and a page number. The preliminary headers contain the name of the school with
the school logo. The preliminary footers must contain a small roman numeral on the right
side of the paper and the name of the strand on the left side. The body headers, footers are
similar to the preliminary pages except the page, use the arabic numerals for its pages.
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RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
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Prepping your Document
On a new document, go to PAGE LAYOUT.
Click on the SIZE icon and select Letter 8 ½ x 11 inches.
Look for the small arrow at the right of PAGE SETUP.
Under the Page Setup windows, set the margins to 1 inch (top, bottom,
right) and 1.5 inches (left)
Still under PAGE LAYOUT, look for the small arrow at the right of
PARAGRAPH.
Set LINE SPACING to 1.5 lines, BEFORE to 0 pt. AFTER to 0 pt., and make
sure that the “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style’s
checked, and clicked OK.
You are done prepping your document. Just make sure this format is
retained throughout the document.
LESSON 4: THE SPECIFICITY AND
FEASIBILITY OF THE PROBLEM POSED
CHAPTER 3: IDENTIFYING THE INQUIRY AND STATING THE PROBLEM
WRITING THE CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
• This part enables the readers to understand the context or the territory of
the study. In creating an introduction follow the T-I-O-C format. It should
provide justification for the study by identifying the niche area within the
existing body of knowledge and identifying the specific aims that becomes
the focus of your research.
Background of the study
The purpose of your BOS is to introduce your research idea to the reader and to
establish its importance and its potential significance.
a. If the title of the research seems “featurized”, the first paragraph must be devoted
to explain the title.
b. Direct quotations must not be written as the first paragraph, instead this can be
rephrased to add substance to the details of the problem.
c. Describe the problem situation by considering global, national, and local forces.
Discussions should be from macro to micro. Emphasize situations using facts and
statistics. These discussions must have sources.
d. In the local scenario, cite the observations, local studies and the like. There must
be emphasis on the local scenario to warrant the existence of the research. More
discussion and descriptions must be seen on this part. This will illustrate the
practical relevance of your research to life.
e. Make a clinching statement/ paragraph that relates/ emphasizes the situational
analysis to the proposed study. Always link one paragraph to the other. Ensure
coherence of ideas within and among the paragraphs and across sentences.
f. End with the main objective of the study by presenting a logical argument telling
the reader why it is important to conduct this particular study or why the research
problem you want to study is important.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1. The main problem is stated in declarative form and should reflect the title;
integral part with it is the objective of the study. The specific problems are written
in question form.
2. The question must match the query of the interview or observation guide.
3. In qualitative research, one central question is allowed, provided it already
encompasses the entire thrust of the research.
4. Limit the questions on what the research wants to find out.
5. This section should be written in the present tense.
6. Usually the research title dictates the key question of the study.
ASSUMPTIONS
There must be research assumptions that anticipate the findings of the study,
which will later be used in the interpretation of data. Usually simple
assumptions are written for qualitative research since we cannot predict yet
what stories and experiences your respondents have to tell.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1. REFER TO THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In writing the significance of the study, always refer to the statement of the problem.
This way, you can clearly define the contribution of the study. To simplify, your
research should answer this question, “what are the benefits or advantages of the
study based on the statement of the problem?”
2. METHODS OF PRESENTING BENEFICIARIES
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HIERARCHICAL – GENERAL TO SPECIFIC
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ACCORDING TO IMPORTANCE – SPECIFIC TO GENERAL
SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY
• It mostly written in two paragraphs. One for the scope of the study and another for
the delimitation of the study.
A. SCOPE OF THE STUDY: (1) discuss the impact of the study, (2) discuss the
evaluation of the population, and (3) discuss the research timeline.
B. DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY: (1) narrow the scope of your research, (2) discuss
the instrument and research method that is used in the study, (3) discuss the
limitations of your study, and (4) discuss the limitations on financial resources.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
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Include only the key terms from the title and research problems.
The terms should be arranged alphabetically and should be define operationally
using complete sentences.
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Conceptual of “dictionary” definitions should be documented as to reference
d.
A term may start with its conceptual and followed by its operational definitions.
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Usually, a maximum of 10 terms are defined in qualitative research.
THE END
MS. ANGILYN NAGTALON
PRAC 1 SUBJECT TEACHER