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The Rationale of Your Research Is The Reason For C

The rationale of a research study is the justification for conducting the study. It answers the need for the research and establishes the significance and novelty of the study. To write the rationale, a researcher should conduct a thorough literature review to understand what is already known about the topic and identify gaps in existing research. The rationale should then highlight these gaps and explain why addressing them through the current study is important. This justifies the need for the research and forms the basis of the study's hypothesis and objectives.

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The Rationale of Your Research Is The Reason For C

The rationale of a research study is the justification for conducting the study. It answers the need for the research and establishes the significance and novelty of the study. To write the rationale, a researcher should conduct a thorough literature review to understand what is already known about the topic and identify gaps in existing research. The rationale should then highlight these gaps and explain why addressing them through the current study is important. This justifies the need for the research and forms the basis of the study's hypothesis and objectives.

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How to write the rationale or justification of

a study?

The rationale of your research is the reason for conducting the study.
The rationale should answer the need for conducting the said
research. It is a very important part of your publication as it justifies
the significance and novelty of the study. That is why it is also referred
to as the justification of the study. Ideally, your research should be
structured as observation, rationale, hypothesis, objectives, methods,
results and conclusions.

To write your rationale, you should first write a background on what


all research has been done on your study topic. Follow this with ‘what
is missing’ or ‘what are the open questions of the study’. Identify the
gaps in the literature and emphasize why it is important to address
those gaps. This will form the rationale of your study. The rationale
should be followed by a hypothesis and objectives. The rationale or
justification for doing any research must be gleaned from the existing
literature on the subject. You will need to conduct a thorough
literature survey and identify gaps in the current literature. The best
way to write this is to introduce the current literature in the
background/Introduction section and then highlight the gaps in the
literature that have not been addressed or are yet to be understood.
This will help set up the need for the current study and thus justify the
need for this research. The term used to imply why the study was
needed in the first place is "rationale for research" or "rationale of a
study." It is also sometimes referred to as the justification of the
study. I have edited your question to reflect this. 
The rationale of a study is a very important part of the manuscript.
You can do a thorough literature review to understand what is
already known in your field of study and thereby identify the gaps in
knowledge or the problems that are yet to be solved. Such gaps will
form the framework of your study and outline the need for a new
study.

Thus, in the Introduction section, you will need to provide a


background on the topic and what is known on the topic. The next
paragraph would indicate the gaps in the current literature and then
lead to the goal/objective/rationale for your new study. 

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