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BBI 3417 Writing Research Report

BBI 3417 Writing Research Report. LECTURE 1 ASSOC.PROF.DR.SHAMALA PARAMASIVAM. What is Research?. Research simply means trying to find answers to questions to learn more about the world around us Research is the organized, systematic search for answers to the questions we ask

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BBI 3417 Writing Research Report

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  1. BBI 3417Writing Research Report LECTURE 1 ASSOC.PROF.DR.SHAMALA PARAMASIVAM

  2. What is Research? • Research simply means trying to find answers to questions to learn more about the world around us • Research is the organized, systematic search for answers to the questions we ask • Research is a disciplined inquiry

  3. What is Research? • According to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary(2007), the word research means: a. to search or investigate exhaustively b. studious inquiry or examination; c. the collecting of information about a particular subject

  4. How can research benefit you?

  5. Basic steps in the research process

  6. Basic steps in the research process

  7. Finding answers to research questions • There are 2 basic ways of finding answers to questions • By looking at what other people have said about a particular issue. This is called secondary, conceptual or library research and it is an essential form of inquiry because it would be a waste of time and energy to ignore other people’s work and reinvent the wheel • By conducting one’s own data-based or empirical investigation, which involves collecting data and then drawing some conclusion from it. This is called primary research.

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