BACKGROUND OF

THE STUDY
Practical Research I
AFTER FINALIZING YOUR RESEARCH
TITLE:
• You have to start conceptualizing the contents of
your research paper by rooting from the reasons
why you need to conduct a study about it.
• It is necessary to be rational in everything that
you do in research, or else it might be a waste of
time and effort.
ACCORDING TO MERRIAM-WEBSTER, A
RATIONALE IS:

1. An explanation of controlling
principles of opinion, belief,
practice, or phenomena
2. An underlying reason; basis
IN THE CONTEXT OF RESEARCH
WRITING:

• RATIONALE pertains to the reasons

why the study must be conducted.
• This is provided by the researcher to
highlight the significant points of the
problem to be addressed in the study.
• Rationale of the study indicates the reasons
why the proposed research actually
matters.
• The researcher must be able to get the
audience’s attention right from the
introduction.
THE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY MUST
CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS:

1. Existing Literature
2. Relevance to Local/Global Context
3. Critical Background/Contextual Information
4. Research Gap
5. Proof of Urgency
6. Research Goal/Objective
EXISTING LITERATURE

•Abackground on what
researches have already
been done about the
given subject
RELEVANCE TO LOCAL/GLOBAL
CONTEXT

• Situational
interconnectedness of
individuals or things in
varying perspectives
CRITICAL BACKGROUND/CONTEXTUAL
INFORMATION

• Circumstances forming a
background of an event, idea, or
subject, that enables the readers to
understand the nature of the
problem.
RESEARCH GAP

• Problems,issues, or
questions that have not been
addressed or are yet to be
understood.
PROOF OF URGENCY

• Anurgent need to solve

the existing problem
RESEARCH GOAL/RATIONALE

• Purposewhy there is a
need for the proposed
study to be conducted.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY –
OVERVIEW OF YOUR TOPIC

GENERAL INFORMATION • EXISTING LITERATURE

ABOUT YOUR TOPIC – • GLOBAL TO NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

• LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
CONTEXT OF YOUR TOPIC
• RESEARCH PROBLEM/GAP

RATIONALE/JUSTIFICATION
• PROOF OF URGENCY
OF YOUR TOPIC
• RATIONALE
IN WRITING THE RATIONALE OF THE
STUDY:
YOU CAN USE DEDUCTIVE STYLE OF
WRITING.
It should be SHORT, CONCISE, AND
COHERENT.
It should be RELIABLE: it is not about your
opinions and experiences, it’s about
factual/inspirational basis of your ideas.
IN WRITING THE BACKGROUND OF THE
STUDY:

EXISTING LITERATURE

GLOBAL ASPECT / NATIONAL REFERENCES

LOCAL REFERENCES
RESEARCH
PROBLEM AND
PROOF OF
URGENCY
RATI
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