Guidelines for A Good Research

Guideline:

1. Where are the major databases/sources that have been recommended by your supervisor/mentor?
2. Focus on the central research questions and bring out the keywords
3. Prepare a list of journals in your area of research.
4. Ask the experts, colleagues and relevant people.
5. Give it a title focused towards your objectives.
6. Plan your bibliography.

1. Create a few central research questions.
2. Pick your Keywords carefully.
3. Visit appropriate portals of the journals and search with keywords.
4. Is the article well cited or less?
5. Is it peer reviewed?
6. Make sure about the details of publications and their credibility.

1. Abstract Assessment: is the article relevant and well cited.
2. Is the theoretical framework matching your question?
3. Is it important to assess if results are unbiased?
4. Also the sample size matters.
5. Do not forget to keep a track of the sources to make bibliography

1. Pick out the key reading & relevant works that you have collected.
2. Do these readings feature your keywords?
3. Who wrote them is very important
   1. Author: Expert/relevant/academic/milestone study/recommended/best in the field etc.
   2. Source: Peer reviewed/academic/expert/trusted/published/documented/govt./NGO
4. Be clear about what you are looking for
5. Always have keywords in mind while reading and mark them while reading
6. Compare to other pieces of work that you have read
7. Make notes about each reading, so that you remember later.
8. Also try talking about it to your colleague/mentor (give more clarity)
9. Reading and making notes hold the key to final writing.

1. The descriptive/reporting method: The catalogue method.
   1. What happened
   2. What the author discussed, found, did
   3. An account summary
2. The interpretive/critical analysis method: The Dialogue Method
   1. Asking and answering questions
   2. Analyzing, explaining and interpreting the reading
   3. Synthesizing information to develop a point of view.

1. Highlight the importance- interpretive voice
   1. This shows that…
   2. This is important/significant because…
   3. This calls attention to …
   4. This can be illustrated by …
   5. What this means that …
   6. Its illustrating that …
   7. Its pointing that …
2. This language is important because:
   1. It makes the writing more interpretive rather than just descriptive.
   2. It gives the researcher a stronger voice and strength in narration in the thesis.
3. Writing-Responding with Critique
   1. This study was limited in its application …
   2. It may have been more illustrative and broad …
   3. It could have been more solution oriented …
   4. The potential solution like … could be utilized …
4. Writing in Critiquing Method:
   1. Deficit
      1. A question that needs to be asked, however, is wheather …
      2. A weakness with this argument is that …
      3. This particular approach fails to take … into account
   2. Strength/Uniqueness
      1. In this milestone work, Mr.X found that …
      2. This was a breakthrough work in terms of …
      3. This is useful in …Particular context …
5. Organizing the final work
   1. Chronologically by time
   2. Perspective of authors (schools of thoughts)
   3. Method wise
   4. Theme/Topic Wise
6. Key Points to remember:
   1. Use Heading-Subheading Method
   2. Cross – referencing is important
   3. Only essential quotation is required
   4. Footnotes, Comments, annotations are important
   5. Detailed Bibliography