REVISIONS COMPLIANCE REPORT FOR PR1 RESEARCH PAPER

Grade and Section: 11 ABM A Group No: 7 Date of Final Oral Defense:

Research Title: Going Digital: Social Media as a Learning Resource among Distance Learners
Researchers: Glycel de Guzman, et al.

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Chapter II: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Related Literature □ The chapter title is Review of Related Literature
□ There is no need to separate the local from the foreign literatures.
□ There is no need to separate the related literatures from related
studies.
□ Type the subheading ‘Related Literature’ for this subsection of your
Chapter II
□ Arrange them according to your chosen method of presentation
(thematic, chronological, by author, etc). Ideally though, arrange them
thematically based on the sequence of your research questions so it
would be easier for you to find them when you have to corroborate them
with your findings in Chapter 4.
□ Cite all the sources you have cited in your RRL, including the year of
publication.
□ Write transition sentences that promote coherence in a continuously
fluid flow of ideas from one paragraph to the next.
□ Add more recent literatures, dating no earlier than 5 years from today.
Preferably the number of related literature reviewed must not be lower
than 15.
□ Most of the literature reviewed are articles and few if at all are
researches. If at all, they only make mention of results. Cite researches
and not just articles about your main phenomenon. Critique and assess
their objectives as to how these were achieved, as well as the methods
(design, sampling, locale) employed and how these helped in attaining the
desired outcomes and results of the study. Recommendations of such
studies must also be cited as they are researchable problems as well.
□ Synthesize the studies presented for them to make sense and not
present them one after the other like a mere litany of researches.
□ Find the similarities and differences in the objectives, methods used,
results as part of the evaluative aspect of doing a literature review.
 □ You need not mention everything in the studies reviewed; just cite
those aspects or parts that are relevant to your study (i.e., those that are
similar to your study, the objectives, findings and and the methods used
in those reviewed studies that you adopted for your research methods.)
□ Avoid monotony by using the same style of presenting literatures by:

□ alternating the presentation of literatures using integral and non-

integral citations
□ changing the Latin ‘et al.’ (meaning ‘and others’) with ‘and associates’
instead is some of your in-text citations
□ At the end of your review of literature writeup, synthesize what the
literatures reviewed reveal in terms of what is known and what remains
inadequately studies that deserves being conducted (gap/s). Then, state
the need to do research on this/these gap/s.
Conceptual Framework □ Cite any legal basis of your study. (e.g. If your study is about compliance
to the Weekly Home Learning Plan, cite the specific DepEd Order about
the Weekly Home Learning Plan and explain briefly what it is about
Or if it is about modular learning then cite the DepEd Order about the
Learning Continuity Plan of the Department of Education)
□ Explain well the input, process and output (for the IPO format)
Conceptual Paradigm □ Construct a research paradigm following the Input-Process-Output (IPO)
format and observe the rules in crafting the paradigm regarding boxes
and arrows and what to include
□ Revise the paradigm according to how it should symbolically represent
the concepts and the variables of your study
□ One entire page must be devoted solely for the conceptual paradigm.
□ FOR IPO FORMAT: Revise/improve the entries in the input box of the
conceptual paradigm by typing therein the key themes or concepts of
each of the research problems.
□ FOR IPO FORMAT: Revise/improve the entries in the process box of
conceptual paradigm by indicating the
□ Research design
□ Sampling method employed
□ Instrumentation processes involved
□ Data analyses performed
□ FOR IPO FORMAT: Revise/improve the entries in the output box of your
conceptual paradigm by
□ indicating what was achieved by the research (Tip: Type
‘Determination of’ or ‘Identification and ‘understanding of’ and then
complete it by typing the objective of the research project)
□ adding a box for the tangible or program/activity output of your study
□ Others: Delete the introductory paragraph in your conceptual paradigm
 and do not italicize the texts inside the IPO boxes of your paradigm.
Definition of Terms □ Write an introductory statement before starting to define the first word
in this section of your research paper.
□ Add and define the following key concepts/terms :
1. Socila media platform
2.
3.
4.
5.

□ Delete the following terms from your writeup in this section:

□ Arrange the terms alphabetically.

□ Indent every term you define conceptually and operationally.
□ Define each term BOTH conceptually and operationally.
□ In defining terms operationally, it would help to make readers or
consumers of your research to understand the terms if you provide
examples. For example, after you define the term social media platforms,
you can provide examples of social media platforms like Facebook,
Instagram and the like.
□ Revise your operational definitions, specifically of the following terms:
1. all terms approved and indicated to be in your writeup for definition of
terms
2.
3.

Follow the rules on how to define terms operationally. Always start with
the phrase ‘ In this research,’ for your operational definition.
□ Highlight the terms needed to be defined in your research by typing
them in bold setting and ending in a period.
□ Other: Remove the words ‘Conceptual Definition’ and ‘operatinoal
definition’ in parenthesis in your definitions. It should just simply follow
that the first sentence is a conceptual definition and the second sentence
is an operational definition.
□ Other: Start with the phrase ‘In this research’ for your second sentence
that serves as your operational deifintion.
Chapter III: METHODOLOGY
Research Design □ The Chapter title is Methodology only
□ Switch the placement of ‘Chapter III’ and ‘Methodology’ at the top of
the page for this chapter
□ All characters of the chapter title ‘METHODOLOGY’ must be typed in
 upper case.
□ Define the specific research design you employed in your study
(example, Narratology) and cite your source accordingly.
□ Do not define ‘research design’ per se nor discuss it intensively. It is the
specific research design that you must discuss instead.
□ Explain how the design fits your research
Duration and Locale □ Indicate the time spent (inclusive dates) on data collection for your
duration. The duration must refer only to the time spent for data
collection and not to entire semester that you are conducting the study.
□ State where the data collection was done. Describe the locale in brief
yet significant detail to give the readers a clear picture of it and to
contribute to understanding the context of your study.
□ You may place a map of the locale here, or you may place it in the
Appendices section
Population and □ Describe your participants/sources of data here and how they were
Participants (Sampling) selected narratively and not by enumeration (i. e., do not enumerate;
instead, discuss them in narrative sentences)
□ Define your sampling method and cite the source accordingly. You may
present a table to more clearly show the characteristics of your
respondents or test organisms or their relative distribution per group. Be
very specific with the sampling method you employed. For example, if it
is purposive, specify what type of purposive sampling did you employ.
□ Explain how your sampling design fits your research among all available
sampling techniques or methods.
□ State exactly how many are your samples/ informants/participants once
the data collection process is completed. Present the sample data per
group, if necessary.
□ If you used tables in presenting the population and samples data, and
the table can fit in one page, avoid unnecessarily cutting the table into
two pages (See table 1 )
Materials and
Procedures
Instrument □ State ALL instruments used in your study.
□ State the origin of the instrument: was it researcher-made, fully
adopted or partly adopted? If adopted, cite the source.
□ Indicate the parts of the instrument /data collection (interview)
protocol, number of items per part and the kind of questions or items
asked and how participants must respond
□ Indicate how the data collection was collected: printed? Using online
questionnaire like Google Forms? Messenger? Combination?
□ Indicate whether or not you devised a contingency when things did not
go your original plan, or when you actually used the contingency.
 Instrument Quality □ Specify the quality assurances used in your instrument (s)
Assurance (transferability, authenticity, confirmability, etc.). State the index and
discuss how they were achieved or attained in your research.
Procedures □ State specific steps conducted:
□ drafting of letters/communications to concerned authorities
□ securing permission from the school principal and other
Authorities
□ drafting of instrument
□ procurement /preparation of materials
□ recruitment of prospective participants
□ orientation of participants on the objectives of the research
□ securing of consent and other ethical considerations undertaken
□ justification of procedures for ethical reasons
□ actual data collection
□ indicate the response rate. This can be determined by dividing the
number of participants invited for data collection (interview) by the
number of participants who actually participated then multiplied by 100.
Data Analysis □ Indicate how the data were analyzed by specifying the type of data
analysis used. Define briefly the data analysis method used and cite the
basis and/or source of the definition of the specific qualitative data
analysis.
□ Explain how does the qualitative data analysis method you employed
fits your data in particular, and how it fits your research in general terms.
□ Indicate whether you have used a software in analyzing your data as
well as its version, or when you analyzed them by hand
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS □ ABBREVIATION: Do not abbreviate any word or phrase especially those
(Applicable in all pages that are not recognized, (like F2F for face-to-face) unless otherwise
unless otherwise stated) specified or allowed (like e.g. for ‘for example’)
□ The word ‘Chapter’ indicated at the top of every first page of every
chapter must be typed with only the letter ‘C’ typed in the upper case.
□ All the characters of all the chapter titles must be typed in UPPERCASE
(for Example: METHODOLOGY and not Methodology or METHODOLOGY)
□ The chapter number must by typed in Roman Numeral.
□ The chapter introduction must always be in present tense. (Example;
This chapter discusses (and not ‘This chapter will discuss’ or ‘This chaptrer
discussed’)
□ All chapter subheadings must also be typed in bold face with only the
first letter of the main words typed in the upper case. (Example: Duration
and Locale of the Study and neither DURATION AND LOCALE OF THE
STUDY nor DURATION AND LOCALE OF THE STUDY and not even
Duration and Locale of the Study)
□ NUMBERS: All numbers below 10 need to be typed in words (e. g., ‘six,’
not ‘6’). Numbers ten and above must be typed in numeric form (e.g., 12,
not twelve), except when they are the first word in a sentence (e.g.
‘Twelve respondents are first-time mothers,’ not ’12 respondents are
first-time mothers.’).
LANGUAGE:
□ Write in formal English. Research is a formal scientific exposition: use
formal English and avoid making it sound like it is a feature article by
avoiding flowery words and idioms.
□ Avoid unnecessary jargons or terms that basic speakers of English could
barely understand. Remember that your goal is to express , not to
impress.
□ Use third person pronouns throughout the study (i. .e, refer to
yourselves as ‘the researchers’ instead of saying ‘we’ or ‘us’)
□ Avoid contraction of words such as ‘can’t’ and ‘don’t’
□ There is still a considerable amount of plagiarized work due to failure
to paraphrase, summarize and/or quote original statements of literature.
Please paraphrase the original sentences by not merely replacing some
words with synonyms.
□ You may use paraphrasing applications available online for free if you
feel incapable of doing it effectivelyon your own.
□ Summarize key ideas by making inferences of, or combining similar
findings of several cited literature in one or a few sentences.
□ Quote sparingly. You may use quoting for original phrases, sentences
and/or passages that are wrothwhile quoting, or whose beauty and
elegance may be compromised if paraphrased.
MARGINS
□ Observe proper margins throughout your research paper. See
formatting guidelines for details.
TABLES AND/OR FIGURES
□ Tables/Figures/Images must be encoded using font size 12 except in
tables that were compressed to fit in one single page
□ Spacing in tables must be single-spaced only.

□ Table and figure and image numbering must be continuous throughout

the research paper.
□ The table number and its title are placed BELOW the table being
referred to.
□ The figure/image number and its title are placed BELOW the table being
referred to.
□ The table number is typed with a period at its end, followed
immediately on the same line by the table title both in Bold setting
□ The figure number is typed in bold face with the word figure
abbreviated as ‘Fig.’ with a period at its end followed by a period, and
then the figure title is typed below the Figure number in regular font face
(not bold, not italicized)
□ Follow the basic table/figure/image format with only three horizontal
lines starting at your Table/Figure/image no. .
□ Improve your table/figure titles
□ Replace the variable names in the tables/figures/images with their
formal variable names
□ Remove the punctuation (period) at the end of your figure title
CITATION:
□ Observe rules of APA 7th edition in the in-text citations and proper
presentation of tables, titles, headings and subheadings.
□ CITE ALL THE STATEMENTS YOU TOOK FROM ALL YOUR SOURCES TO
AVOID PLAGIARISM AND/OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. Install free
plagiarism checks (e.g. Grammarly) to make it convenient for you. The
acceptable level of plagiarized work is 15% only (meaning the similarity of
the sentence structure even if the sentence has already been
paraphrased could still be detected by a plagiarism checker as plagiarized;
that is why, a cap of 15% is allowed.)
INDENTIONS:
□ Justify all sentences and paragraphs of the body of your research paper.
(This will promote a longer life span for your computer printer head.)
□ Indent every paragraph throughout your research paper. Entries in the
significance of the study (for each beneficiary) and in the definition of
terms (every term defined) must also be indented. Introductory
statements must also be indented as do all first sentences of a paragraph.
□ TENSES: Use PAST TENSE in all activities of the research process that
were already completed.
□ The verb tenses of the related literatures cited throughout your
research paper may be in present or in past form. However, if you have to
use just one tense throughout, that is, if you started out with present
tense verbs, then consistently use present tense verbs every time you
have to present a related literature.
Example: Santos (2017) posits that … . However. Meneses argues (not
argued) that…
GRAMMAR AND SPELLING
□ Check the grammatical structure of your writeups and spelling of
words. Red lines in your MS Word document means there must be some
words misspelled or incorrectly written statements (and so do words
foreign to the language setting of your MS Office.)
□ Seek help from a language expert or install a grammar and spelling
 checker like Grammarly® (Free versions are available but with limited
functionality) to help you out in proofreading your work for grammar.
□ Punctuations are parts of a good sentence. Use them appropriately.
□ FONT STYLE: Use only one font style throughout your research paper,
i.e., EITHER Arial (Size 12) OR Times New Roman (Size 12) BUT never both
at the same time.
□ FONT SIZE: Use only one font size throughout your research paper, i.e.,
Size 12
PAGINATION:
□ Observe proper pagination and page placement in every page. See
formatting guidelines for details (Roman numerals for the preliminaries;
Arabic numbers for the body of the research paper).
□ Do not type the page number of the first page of the body of your
research paper.
□ For the pagination, use the font style you used for the encoding of your
entire manuscript. Make sure it is also encoded in size #12.
□Type all pages numbers in the header (for the body pagination) and
footer (for the preliminaries pagination) of the page by clicking on the
header or footer, respectively
□ Every chapter begins with a new page in the manuscript
□ SPACING: Maintain double spacing throughout your paper except in
sections otherwise stated (like lines of the title in the title page, table
titles anf figure titles)
□ Make no unnecessary spaces in between paragraphs and in between
subtitles and first paragraph of the corresponding subtitle. Make sure that
you set the spacing in the ‘Paragraph’ dialog box to ‘Double’ and
indicating zero (0) point in the before and after for the line spacing and
by clicking ‘Do not add space between paragraphs in the same style’
□ Start typing on the first line of every page.
□ Split your soft copy into three files: one file name for the title page,
another for the preliminaries and the third for the body up to the
curriculum vita. This is because the pagination of the title page and the
preliminaries is different and is continuous from the pagination of the
body of the research paper.

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Compliance Made
RESEARCH (Indicate the compliance action that
PAPER Suggestions/ Comments for Revisions to be made you have done and indicate the page Remarks
PARTS number(s) where those revisions
made are found)
Chapter 2: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Review of Related □ There is no need to separate the local from the foreign literatures.
Literature □ Arrange them according to your chosen method of presentation Complied: reviewed literature were
(thematic, chronological, by author, etc). Ideally though, arrange them reorganized thematically, following
thematically based on the sequence of your research questions so it the key issues or themes of the
would be easier for you to find them when you have to corroborate them research questions as basis for
with your findings in Chapter 4. sequence of themes (pp. 12-21).