ARTS RESEARCH

With the on-going Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), it is impossible for us to mount the main
output of this research. Thus, we will just simplify the requirement for this subject.

To date, during the 1st, 2 nd, and 3rd Quarter, we have started crafting your research paper. Proposals,
series of consultations and panel defence have been made.

Also, in the IMRAD structure, we have completed the discussion of Introduction and Methods. With this,
the said parts of research along with references shall be the only requirement that needs to be
submitted for S.Y. 2019-2020. The remaining Results and Discussion will no longer be required to be
accomplished unless otherwise these parts was already done before the ECQ and bound to be edited by
your respective editor.

Below is the run-down of our discussion of the parts of IMRAD. This will be your guide in crafting the
final requirement. Please take time to review your research and double check if this already reflects on
your research.

IMRAD GUIDE SHEET

Specifications:

•Margins: Top, 0.79; Right, 0.79; and Bottom, 0.79; Left, 1.35; however there shall be no need for
binding.

•Standard font is Garamond 11; the manuscript shall be in two columns, justified.

•To facilitate copy editing, the manuscript (duly certified by the Adviser that it is ready for editing) shall
be double spaced. After copy editing, the manuscript shall be single spaced format for proofreading by
the editor.

•The preliminary pages shall follow the specifications:

-Page 1 shall begin in the Title Page (page number hidden); page number shall be in lower case Roman
Numerals, font size Garamond 8, bottom center

-Margins-1 for top, bottom, left, and right

•Page 1 shall begin in the Introduction; page number shall be in Hindu-Arabic numerals, font size
Garamond 8, bottom-center.

•Extraneous materials, e.g. annexes, documentations, figures, correspondents, dataset, etc. shall be
paged in Hindu-Arabic numerals, also Garamond 8, bottom-center following the page number of the last
page of the References.

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•Standard font is Garamond 12, single spaced, justified

Manuscript Content

•Title Page
•Acknowledgment
•Table of Contents
•Abstract and Introduction
•Methodology
•References
•Curriculum Vitae

Abstract

Abstracts can vary in length from one paragraph to several pages, but they follow the IMRaD format and
typically spend:

a) A discussion on the importance of your research. You may get the idea from your introduction
b) A discussion on what you did. You may get the idea from your methods.

Introduction (Make a case for your research)

Begin by explaining to your readers what problem you have researched and why the research is
necessary. Convince readers that it is important that they continue to read. Discuss the current
state of research in your field, expose a “gap” or problem in the field, and then explain why is your
present research is a timely and necessary solution to that gap. The following questions may guide you
in crafting the introduction:

a) Give a background of your research. (explain the roots/origin of the problem)

b) What is the rationale- the reason behind your research? What is the purpose of the
study? Why is your chosen topic a necessary for research? What is the importance of this
research?
c) What is the current state of the research problem in the field?
d) Cite a review of related literature, past studies or other researches done before. Use
these related literatures in your introduction. How these related literature can be stitched
together to come up with a new idea?
e) Identify the key references. Extract ideas from past studies and use this into your
introduction.
f) What are the gaps to be bridged or the problems that needs a solution? How your
research can be a solution to these gaps?
g) What are the problems or challenges in the field?
h) What are the objectives of your study? Give at least three objectives.

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Methods (What did you do?)

Methods are usually written in past tense and passive voice with lots of headings and subheadings.

a) What is your research design? A research design is the set of methods and procedures in
collecting and analyzing measures. A research design is a framework that has been created
to find answers to research questions.
b) Design types and sub-types include:
•Descriptive (e.g., Case-study, naturalistic observation, survey),
•Co-relational (e.g., case control study, observational study)
•Semi-experimental (e.g., field experiment, quasi-experiment),
•Experimental (experiment with random assignment)
•Review (literature review, systematic review),
•Meta-analytic(meta-analysis, i.e., using statistical methods for contrasting and combining
results from different studies to identify patterns among study results, sources of
disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to
light in the context of multiple studies)
c) Who are your respondents? What data or information are you going to collect to be used
in this research? When is your data gathering? Is there any special occasion in the
community for you to observe in order to gather data? Where? How are you going to
collect the data? Why is the data necessary?
d) What are the materials, interventions, outcome measures, statistical analysis, sample size
calculations, and ethical considerations in collecting the data?
e) What are your data gathering tools and techniques? Data gathering tools may be in a form
of a survey, interview, random sampling, and a whole lot more.

Results
a) What are the results of all the experiments? What are the outcomes of the experiments?
b) Based on your experiments, what are the data or results that you have gathered? Present
your data [in Texts, Tables, Figures if possible]
c) Present the interpretation, analysis, and explanation of your data (go back to your
objectives if it is achieved)

Discussion
a) Present a summary of major findings (Summarize the data that you have gathered after
the performance/feedbacks)
b) Discussion of findings ( What are the major key points that needs to be addressed in the
research process, crafting the production, performance, and post-production)

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c) Alternative explanations (present an alternative solutions to the problems that you have
identified and encountered)
d) What are the strengths and weaknesses of your research? Identify various strengths and
weaknesses in areas or aspects of your research. You may refer to the activity evaluation
in analyzing this part.
e) Present an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses
f) Use Theory and Approach as part of analysis
g) Implications of the findings based on Theory and Approach
h) What are the unanswered questions in your research?
i) Present a Final Summary (synopsis/sum-up) of your research
j) Present a conclusion (wrap-up) of your research

References
Appendices

The technical format is as follows:

Form of Output Publishable Paper; IMRaD Frame

Spacing Single
Format APA (except PH & THEO: Chicago Turabian)
Margins: 1.25 (left)
0.79 (top, bottom, right)
Text Alignment Justified
Font: Garamond, size 12
Page Format two-columnar
References Minimum of 20 References for High School for
Introduction and Methodology

Below is the timeline of activities:

May 11-15, 2020- Work on the Introduction

May 18, 2020- Submission of Final edited Introduction
May 18-22, 2020- Work on Methodology
May 25-Submission of Methodology
May 25-29, 2020- Work on the Final and edited manuscript
May 29, 2020- Submission of Final and edited manuscript The final copy must be free of
grammatical and error and must be certified edited by the editor.

Consultations

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 Any queries regarding the research, you may please consult Mr. Noel S. Armeña via
Facebook messenger or Zoom. Consultations must be done between 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.,
Mondays thru Fridays. Each group may request for a scheduled video conference with Mr.
Armeña if necessary.

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