Research

Methodology

Year5/ ME class

BY: DR. KINNALETH VONGCHANH

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA
3. Introduction

What are the important of Introduction?

- To capture the reader’s attention
- To descript the important/needed of the present study
- To determine the reader’s decision to continue
reading the present study or not
3. Introduction

 We should be able to answer the questions below in order

to write good introduction

- What are the important of our research?

- What are the current problems?
- What are the data to support the mentioned problems?
- Why do we need to do this research?
- How were the related research done?
- What are the gab of the research?
- What are the background of the research?
3. Introduction

Introduction/Motivation/Research Background

When and how to start writing Introduction?

- Introduction can be broken into 3 main parts
1. Premise
2. Problem
3. Proposal
3. Introduction

Premise:
- Containing background information
- Giving general data or background related to the topic
to show the evident to the reader
- Simply a remind of what readers already know and
therefore establishes a common ground of
understanding between the writer and the readers.
- Link these information to the problem finding
3. Introduction

Problem:
- Describe the problem that is existing in the field
- Point out limitations or a gap in the field and state
how work can be fit to the field
- Motivation to carry out this study/research
- Previous findings are inadequate (It can be done
after reading many literatures/papers during looking
for topics)
3. Introduction

Proposal
- Usually placing at the end of the Introduction
- Usually introducing the study carried out
- Showing the plan of the present study
 Objectives

1. This should be given in the beginning of the proposal

2. The objective should contain the research problem that
you will address and the key area that you propose to
investigate

- Point out what is going to be done in the present research

- It must be matched with the research topic
- This is a promise of the research which are going to be
carry out
 Scope of study

1. The following are requirements for a correctly formulated hypothesis

- Be stated clearly and must be to the point
- Be testable
- Establish relations between variable
- Have a manageable scope
- Be related to already known facts
- Be possible to test the hypothesis within a reasonable period

- To limit the working area

- To help the research area not large
Research proposal

Expected outcome
Outcome is result of the output in long term

- What will the research be benefit?

- Who will be the beneficial?
Expected output
Output is the results of activities. Output is mostly
obtained from the objectives

- Does any product output from this research, such as;

new data, prototype, equations, simulation, etc.
Sources

Azirah Hashim, How to Write a Thesis, University of Malaya, Kuala

lumpur, Malaysia, 2006.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
3. Introduction

When and how to start writing Introduction?

- It is not usually written first. However, it can be done
first; make sure you return to it after you have
written all the other chapters
- Introduction even can be done after writing the
conclusion, some case.