Style, Format and Structure of

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Unit I

• Style, Format and Structure of
• Research Paper

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Objectives

• To identify different kinds of research paper
• To identify methodology used in different
  research paper
• To provide guidelines for selecting researchable
  topic
• To be familiarized with basic IMRD structure in
  research paper writing

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Learning Activities

• Online and classroom lectures
• Online sharing and research
• Group discussion and problem solving in class
• Self-study worksheets and exercises

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Definition of research

• Nunan (1992)
• Research is a process of
• Formulating questions, problems or hypotheses
• Collecting data or evidence
• Analyzing or interpreting these data.

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Type and Format

• Basic types of research paper
• - Historical research
• - Comparative research
• - Experimental research
• - Survey and Inventory
• - Case study

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Research methods

• Dialectics ???
• Deductive, inductive and reasoning skills are
  used to get a conclusion from theories, documents
  or researches done by other people.

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2. Experiment ???

• To find out the co-relationship among variables
• Experimental group
• pretest treatment posttest
• Control group
• pretest No posttest

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3. Survey ?????

• Using inventory or questionnaire to find out
  sampled participants opinion or attitude.
• - Appropriate sampling method , data collecting
  and statistic analyzing process are used to get
  reliable and consistent results.

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4. Case study ????

• Focus on single case, group of people or
  implementation of scientific methods and try to
  find out solutions of certain problems.
• Interview, observation, inventory , tests, etc.,
  are used to measure the outcome.

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Generating your Research Topic

• Starting with your own hypothesis in your
  interested area.
• Putting other peoples theories to test
• Modifying a previous study with initiative ideas
• Expand the scope of previous studies

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Organizing your Hypothesis

• Is the question clear and researchable ? Does it
  extend knowledge in the field of study?
• Have you mastered the relevant background
  literature?
• Is the proposed method suitable for exploring the
  question?

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Structure of the Research paper

• Structure varies in different field of study
• In some specific areas, Related Literature is
  combined with Introduction.
• Overall format
• Abstract, Introduction (Related Literature),
  Method , Results, Conclusion, and References