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METHODS OF RESEARCH
LECTURE 1
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
▪ Any kind of investigation that is
intended to uncover interesting or
new facts.
✓ Acquire knowledge
✓ Develop understanding
✓ Collect facts (data)
✓ Interpret the collected data
2. Descriptive research
▪ Discover new meaning, what exists, etc
3. Ethnographic research
▪ In-depth study on culture and members of the culture
4. Experimental research
▪ An objective, systematic, controlled investigation
TYPES OF RESEARCH
5. Exploratory research
▪ Informal such as informal discussions with people (interviews)
6. Grounded research
▪ Discover what problems exist in a given social environment
7. Historical research
▪ Analysis of events occurred in the past
8. Phenomenological research
▪ Describe an experience as it is actually lived by the person
PURE vs APPLIED REASEARCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPW5msevJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h924kiLlvA0
QUANTITATIVE vs QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative research Qualitative research
▪ Systematic empirical investigation via ▪ Deals with those difficult or impossible to
statistical, mathematical, or quantify (e.g. beliefs, meanings, attributes,
computational techniques etc.)
▪ Use scientific method ▪ Why and how (surveys)
▪ Advantages: ▪ Advantages:
✓ Researcher can measure and ✓ ok with complex studies
analyze data ✓ fewer assumptions on data collected
✓ More objective about findings ✓ more depth understanding (not
✓ Data are validated by experiments bounded by a quantity)
that test hypothesis ✓ data in own words or way
▪ Disadvantages: ▪ Disadvantages:
➢ The context of the study is ignored ➢ More difficult to validate the data
➢ Does not study things in a natural ➢ More subjectivity
setting ➢ Data overload
➢ The higher the population sample, ➢ Time consuming
the more accuracy needed
WHAT IS A THESIS?
✓ A thesis is a proposition. (It makes a point)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMGRe824kak
WRITING GOOD EFFECTIVE TITLE
Shah, J.N. (2014). Writing Good Effective Title for Journal Article. J Patan Acd Health Sci, 1(2), 1-3.
WRITING GOOD EFFECTIVE TITLE
Shah, J.N. (2014). Writing Good Effective Title for Journal Article. J Patan Acd Health Sci, 1(2), 1-3.
WRITING GOOD EFFECTIVE TITLE
Shah, J.N. (2014). Writing Good Effective Title for Journal Article. J Patan Acd Health Sci, 1(2), 1-3.
WRITING GOOD EFFECTIVE TITLE
▪ From the answers list key phrases/words:
▪ Paper studied use of prophylaxis antibiotic in cholecystectomy
▪ Studied reduction in wound infection after routine prophylaxis
▪ Study sample was low-risk elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy
▪ It was a randomized clinical trial.
▪ Research was done at university teaching hospital
▪ There was no decrease in wound infection after routine prophylaxis.
Shah, J.N. (2014). Writing Good Effective Title for Journal Article. J Patan Acd Health Sci, 1(2), 1-3.
CLASS ACTIVITY 1