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Success in Research

How?
Golden Sayings
• New ideas do not come by casually
 It takes your Time, your Mind and your Qalam
(Pen)
• For research findings you need to
 Read, Read, Read----------(Relevant Area)
 Have Imaginations
 Ask your self Childlike questions
 Do Hard Work/ Donkey Work
RICH TQM
Usual Interference in Research

Finance Job, Part time Job, Business, Property

Status Car, House, Immigration

Communications Social media such as Face book, SMS, Cell, E-mails

Entertainment TV, Cinema, You tube, others

Politics Marriage, Home, Family, Local and National

Others NO other activity


Reading Research Paper
• Difference between Book and Research Paper
-Audience/Reader
-Type (Primary Vs Secondary
• Reading research paper is partly a matter of
experience and skills and partly learning the
specific vocabulary of the field
• Don’t Panic
• Four steps are helpful in this regard.
Four Step Process
1-Skimming: Quick view (within 5-10 minutes)
from Headings, Figures, graphs, tables
2-Vocabulary: Go through the paper word by word
and line by line
3-Comprehensive: Read whole paper section by
section
4-Reflection and Criticism: After understanding
and summarizing return to broader question and
draw your own conclusion
Scientific Method
Theory Building (1-3), Theory testing (4-7)
1. Assess relevant existing knowledge of
phenomenon
2. Formulate concepts and Propositions
Concept: A generalized idea about a class of objects that has been given a
name; an abstraction of reality that is the basic unit for theory development
3. State hypotheses
4. Research
Propositions design to test
are statements hypotheses
concerned with the relationships among concepts.
A proposition explains the logical linkage among certain concepts by asserting
5. Acquire empirical
a universal dataconcepts.
connection between
Hypothesis is a proposition that is empirically testable. A hypothesis is a formal
6. Analyze
statementand evaluate
explaining dataIn its simplest form, a hypothesis
some outcome.
is a guess.
7. Propose an explanation of the phenomenon
and state new problems raised by the research
How to find Area?
• Subject category
• ISI web of knowledge 56 subject categories in
social sciences
• 2-3 books for specific topic/area
• Identify the journals (5-10)
• Total journals 10804
• Management-174
• Read the issues/topics from last 2 years papers

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