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This reading report provides guidance on critically reading research reports by outlining 5 key questions to consider: 1. What is the report about? The title, abstract, and statement of purpose should clearly explain the topic. 2. How does the study fit with existing research? The introduction and literature review should discuss previous relevant findings and how the current study adds to the body of knowledge. 3. How was the study conducted? The methodology should be explained in enough detail that another researcher could replicate the study. 4. What were the findings? Results are presented using tables, graphs, diagrams and statistics as appropriate to the research design. 5. What do the results

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Reading Critically

This reading report provides guidance on critically reading research reports by outlining 5 key questions to consider: 1. What is the report about? The title, abstract, and statement of purpose should clearly explain the topic. 2. How does the study fit with existing research? The introduction and literature review should discuss previous relevant findings and how the current study adds to the body of knowledge. 3. How was the study conducted? The methodology should be explained in enough detail that another researcher could replicate the study. 4. What were the findings? Results are presented using tables, graphs, diagrams and statistics as appropriate to the research design. 5. What do the results

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READING REPORT

By Afriyie Emmanuel Oppong

Reading Critically
Things to Notice and Questions to Ask

This Chapter outline points aid the reader to learn more about the points to which critical question are asked and tough judgment are made. This help dispose obvious question that may come to mind, leading us to blunt decision. Another important part is using the tools to access the research reports without necessarily mastering the materials. The chapter online five basic question that are integral on most report. These questions help the write or read to better understand the direction of the report. Knowing thewhat andhow of a report gives more meaning to the reader. The questions are elaborated in the subsequent paragraphs. What Is the Report About? This section of the report explains is explained in the title, the abstract and the section that contain in the statement of purpose. The title is an important part of the report and its the first this most readers look at, hence the interest inspired by a good title tells enough about the appropriate subset of the prospect reader. Making a title brief is very important but ensuring that all the need to aspect that highlights the content of the report is also important. The title leads the reader to the report. The abstract is a short summary of your completed research. If done well, it makes the reader want to learn more about your research and also give the importance of the research. A good abstract also extend the information of the provided title. The Purpose is more directives in answering the questions of what the report is about, which is outlined in a formal statement. This is written in various forms, either a research question or research purpose o research hypothesis. The statement of purpose provide clearly the why the study was performed and also confirms the title and abstract of the research.

How Does The Study Fit Into What Already Is Known? The reader can be led to understanding the rationale for doing this study, the reason for selecting that particular method of data collecting and the potential findings. This part has four sections, the introduction, research purpose, related literature and reference. The introduction and related literature are sometimes combined. The main idea is that both should address the gaps, the limits in the previous

findings. Providing extensive summary of previous finding as background for a new conceptual design or complex study is also important at this stage. This all tell the reader how the study to be done fits into the existing findings. Reference list may contain materials the served your needs, even when the present study does not. It is necessary that in includes original source for particular techniques of measurement, data collection and analysis, especially those that are valuable to your purpose.

How Was The Study Done? The goal of this section is to write a careful account that another investigator could repeat the study exactly as in the original; hence you explain the precise and thorough process the study was conducted. This also places some level of integrity on the report. The extent to which this section is perfected give reader confidence in the report. In simple term there is the need to do everything possible to grasp the broad outline of how the research was done by using relationship from flowchart to maps, creative diagrams, etc. If the study is than about humans, the researcher to outline the limited process that was inquires by the customs, ethics, law and regulations. Its also important to know that the subject needs to agree before the person is used in the research. The exact nature of the subjects selected for the study need to be carefully stated in the report. This is done to show the logic of the choice made an also to help to allow the reader estimate how closely the subjects resemble the people to whom they are interested. Researcher need to carefully explain why they choose the instruments selected and why they have confidence that it is the most accurate means of data collection for the purpose of the study. The researcher needs to give more insight on how the instrument was used.

What Was Found? This part is known to be the exciting part of the report. It is the area where the findings our discovered. In this area, depending on the type of method that was use, the output differs. In a traditional quantitative study, there may be two options illustrating the result: a statistical analysis expressed in numeric form and symbolic recreations such as graphs, diagrams and photographs. In describing the findings, begin the section header with Result or Findings. Its necessary to note that pictures are worth thousand words hence the diagrams should be vivid and variables should also be vivid. This section uses line graphs, to help clarify the overall pattern in a set of data, bar graph to represent disparate and independent factors, double axis graph to show how two dependent variables are related. Also others like Pie chart which is most commonly used to show how wholes are divided into constituent parts.

Tables are ideal format for revealing trends, relationship and relative proportions. It also serves as important role such as condensing large volume of raw data into am economical space and preserving the precise characteristics.

What Do The Result Mean? The research matches findings with the original research purpose, and indicates which part of the result is the most important. The researcher clearly ought to state what the findings mean to them. Also it is appropriate to re-emphasize on the limitations of the study. In this section the researcher must not allow any confusion between assertions that are and not supported by the data.

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