ENGLISH QUARTER 4
DISTINGUISH TECHNICAL TERM USED IN RESEARCH
Research
- is an organized and systematic way of finding answers to questions about facts
and relationship between facts.
- a careful investigation especially through search for new facts in any branch of
knowledge.
What is an ABSTRACT?
- summarizes usually in one paragraph of 250 words or less, the major aspects of the
entire paper in a prescribed sequence that includes:
1. The overall purpose of the study and the research problem(s) you investigated
2. The basic design of the study
3. Major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis
4. A brief summary of your interpretations and conclusion
What is an INTRODUCTION?
- Serves the purpose of leading the reader from a general subject area to a
particular field of research. It establishes the context of the research being
conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information
about the topic, stating the purpose of the work in the form of the hypothesis,
question, or research problem, briefly explaining your rationale, methodological
approach, highlighting the potential outcomes your study can reveal, and
describing the remaining structure of the paper.
What is a LITERATURE REVIEW?
- Surveys scholarly articles, books and other sources relevant to a particular issue,
area of research, or theory, and by so doing, providing a description, summary,
and critical evaluation of these works. Literature reviews are designed to provide
an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic and
to demonstrate to your readers how your research fits into the larger field of study.
What is a METHODOLOGY?
- Includes the strategy and reason for conducting the research. Involves four parts:
participants, experiment design, materials used, and procedure. It provides the
information by which study's validity is judged.
What is are RESULT?
- The results section is where you report the findings of your study based upon the
methodology [or methodologies] you applied to gather information. The results
section should state the findings of the research arranged in a logical sequence
and is always written in the past tense. A section describing results [a.k.a. “findings”]
should be particularly detailed if your paper includes data generated from your
own research.
What is a DISCUSSION?
- It interprets and describes the significance of your findings in light of what was
already known about the research problem being investigated, and to explain
any new understanding or fresh insights about the problem after you've taken the
findings into consideration. The discussion will always connect to the introduction
by way of the research questions or hypotheses you posed and the literature you
reviewed, but it does not simply repeat or rearrange the introduction; the
discussion should always explain how your study has moved the reader's
understanding of the research problem forward from where you left them at the
end of the introduction.
What is CONCLUSION?
- The conclusion is intended to help the reader understand why your research
should matter to them after they have finished reading the paper. A conclusion is
not merely a summary of your points or a re-statement of your research problem
but a synthesis of key points. For most essays, one well-developed paragraph is
sufficient for a conclusion, although in some cases, a two-or-three- paragraph
conclusion may be required.
What is a REFERENCE?
- A reference is also a citation of a published or unpublished source that you
consulted and obtained information from while writing your research paper. The
way in which you document your sources depends on the writing style. Citations
show your readers where you obtained your material, provides a means of
critiquing your study, and offers the opportunity to obtain additional information
about the research problem under investigation.
What is an APPENDIX?
- An appendix contains supplementary material that is not an essential part of the
text itself but which may be helpful in providing a more comprehensive
understanding of the research problem and/or is information which is too
cumbersome to be included in the body of the paper. A separate appendix
should be used for each distinct topic or set of data and always have a title
descriptive of its contents.
Appendix A - A short explanation of project-relevant Google programs Google
Analytics - A Java tracking script that allows Web administrators to track the visitors
by a variety of criteria, including information on page views, time of visit, number of
pages seen, number of new visitors, how they got to the site, etc. It also allows
demographic information of visitors by geographic area, language, operating
system, Web browser, etc. Inside the geographic area, visitors can be tracked by
country, state, county, city, or another specified geographic region.
Google Checkout - Google's financial transactions software. It allows users to add
the program and Google Checkout processes, credit card transactions in a secure
manner. Similar to PayPal.
Google Grants - Google Grants is a program that allows nonprofits to apply for an
advertising budget grant; if they are accepted, the organization is essentially
restricted to AdWords users in that they are capped with a relatively small daily
budget and a cost per click bid. The "grant" part of this program is they do not
have to pay for this advertising.
Google AdSense - Allows Webmasters from independent sites to display relevant
Google ads on their site; for every click through, the Webma6ster gets a
percentage of the revenue generated by the search.
Other technical terms include; theory- defined as a general explanation about a
specific behavior or set of events that is based on known principles and serves to
organize related events in a meaningful way; data- a factual information, scope,
and focus of the research paper; conceptual framework-offers logical a structure
of connected concepts that help provide a picture or visual display of how ideas
in a study relate to one another within the theoretical framework; and research
design-the game plan or method for finding out what you want to know.