Research and Writing workshop Understanding

 Hello everyone!

I am Nidhi Jethava and I am a student of MK Bhavnagar University. As a part of the syllabus, we have dissertation writing and on Monday we had a workshop on research and writing workshop. The resource person was Dr. Clement Ndoricimpa. After completing any unit and workshop we have to do a thinking activity and this blog is part of the thinking activity and in this blog, I am going to talk about my learning outcomes. 

What is research writing? 

“Research” is an organized, scientific and systematic investigation of truths about a particular subject or about things that no-one else knew (Walliman, 2011). It simply means hunting for new knowledge. Research also means a scientific investigation to solve problems, test hypotheses, and develop new knowledge. Research is scientific because it uses scientific methods by making an integrated use of inductive-deductive reasoning.

It means research is very systematic and scientific. For research writing, one should work in a scientific and systematic way. 

Throughghout the worshop we learn so many things. What is research? What is our area for research writing? What kind of problems you are identified? What is your resech ground? Identified each and everything we cone to know that research should be in systematic way.

According to Walliman (2011), this inductive-deductive reasoning follows the process below:

1. identification or clarification of the problem;

2. developing a hypothesis (testable theory) inductively from observation;

3. charting their implications by deduction;

4. practical or theoretical testing of the hypothesis;

5. rejecting or redefining it in the light of the results.

Research is systematic because it follows certain steps that are logically connected. These steps are:

• understanding the nature of the problem to be studied and identifying the related areas of knowledge;

• reviewing the literature to understand how others have approached or dealt with the problem;

• collecting data in an organized and controlled manner so as to arrive at a valid decision;

• analyzing data appropriate to the problem; 

• Drawing conclusions and making generalizations.

There are different types of research.

Historical	Descriptive
Correlation	Cultural

Research has the following characteristics:

1. It is based on the works of others;

2. It can be replicated (duplicated)- reliability;

3. It is generalizable to other settings (external validity);

4. It is based on some logical rationale and tied to a particular theory (content validity);

5. It is doable;

6. It generates news questions;

7. It is important;

8. It advances the frontiers of knowledge.

- Besides this most important thing is how to select a topic and the most important thing is the selection of the topic and its process. Selection of topic and its reason are the most important thing. Besides this what kind of question arises in your mind and how you will shape it is the most important thing. In research writing, another important thing is Literature overview. 

1. The structure of a dissertation

1. Introduction

2. Literature review

3. Research methods/theoretical framework for literary studies.

4. Interpretation and discussion of the findings

5. Conclusion.

So these are some of the important things for research writing. 

Reference:-

Williman, N. (2011). Research Methods: The Basics. London & New York: Routledge. 

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