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ADVANCED RESEARCH

METHODS
Lecture 2
Session Outline
• Discussion on Assignment
• Reflection on Session 1
• Research Process
• Art of Browsing
• How to Select an Appropriate Topic- Always Challenging for Scholars
Why Do We Do Research?
(Babbie, 1999; Veal 2005)

■ Exploration
– Uncovering issues of concern
– Increasing understanding of the problem
■ Description
– Finding out, describing what is
– What is the situation? Where are we now?
Why Do We Do Research?

■ Explanation
– Explaining how or why things are as they are (and using this to
predict)
– Answering questions, solving problems, testing theories
■ Evaluation research
– evaluation of policies, strategies, programs and practices dents
Who Does Research? (Veal, 2005)

■ Academics
■ Students
■ Government and business organisations
■ Consultants
■ Managers
The Research Process

A general approach:
■ Desire to do research
■ Formulating and clarifying the topic
■ Reviewing the literature
■ Choosing a research strategy
■ Collecting data
■ Analysing data
■ Reporting the findings (write-up)
Classification of
Research

Applicatio Time Inquiry


Objective
n Dimension Mode
Basic or Cross-
Exploratory Qualitative
Pure sectional
research research
Research research

Applied Explanatory Longitudinal Quantitative


Research research research research

Mixed
Descriptive
Methods
research
research
COMPONENTS OF A RESEARCH
PAPER/THESIS
HOW TO FINALIZE
RESEARCH TOPIC
BROWSING ??
ALWAYS
CHALLENGING
FOR STUDENTS
• Emerald Publishing
Publishers
• Elsevier
and
• Wiley Online Library Databases
• Taylor and Francis

• Springer

• ScienceDirect

• Google Scholar
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https://www.emerald.com/insight/
Browsing
https://www.elsevier.com/
Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

https://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en

https://www.tandfonline.com/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/

https://www.jstor.org/

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Recent Call for Papers from Top Journals

Recent Published Papers


Tips to Select the Systematic Literature Review
Research Topic
Meta Analysis

Find the Theoretical Gaps in Literature

Future Directions of Latest Studies

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Sample Sheet

Year Title Abstract Model/Variables Future Directions

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