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Lecture 3
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You need to know what has been done before (by other writers
and researchers)
Linked to what you are researching and why
Position the study
Using relevant theoretical concepts
Apply theory to practice
Demonstrate knowledge in subject(s)
Demonstrate (library)research skills
Why (part 2)
descriptive account
list
summary
book review / or library report
OR
And!
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Research Questions
There is little point in carrying out a research project if there
is no aim / no problem / no issue to research
RQs are Those that originate, shape and are to some extent
answered by the study Clough and Nutbrown (2002:32)
Framing a research problem the questions
Using what is already there and building on it
Reading
Research questions develop out of your reading.
.. Some reading has more value than others!
Oldest appears in text books
Cutting edge in conference papers and then Journals
Internet and popular sources be selective
You are looking to make an argument for your research
to do this look at what others have said on the same
subject.
What is the writer trying to say?
What evidence does the writer have to substantiate the claim?
Do you accept this?
Does it fit with what you know?
Why? who says? So what?
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analysis
knowledge
synthesis
comprehension
Analysis the job of systematically breaking down something
into its constituent parts and describing how they relate to each
other.
needs to by systematic
the data for analysis is information - the interpretations
understandings and arguments that others have proposed
need to extract key ideas, theories, concepts and
methodological assumptions from the literature
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