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    CHAPTER 2 -

    LESSON 2
    Writing a Research
    Title
    Title of Research
    🞇The title of the research is the research problem or
    inquiry in capsule form.
    🞇And it must be original, clear, concise or specific.
    Basic Question in Writing Research Title
    🞇 1. Does the title describe what the study is all about?
    Your goal should be to craft a title that can stand alone and be fully explanatory
    without further elaboration. A reader browsing through paper titles should be
    able to quickly read your title and know exactly what your paper is about.
    It should be descriptive, direct, accurate, appropriate, interesting, concise,
    precise, unique, and should not be misleading.
    🞇 2. Does the title contain a high specificity level?
    🞇 3. Is the title academically phrased and is not lengthy?
    Avoid words that serve no real purpose or that do not communicate essential
    information
    🞇 4. Is the title within (5-18) substantive word requirements of the
    American Psychological Association (APA)?
    APA recommends that your title be focused and succinct and that it should not
    contain abbreviations or words that serve no purpose. Your title may take up
    one or two lines.
    Broad Topics Specific Topics
    🞇Blended Learning 🞇 A Correlation Study on the Use of
    in English Classes Blended Learning in Freshman
    🞇Presidential English Classes and Student
    Achievement
    Election Results
    🞇 Campaign Events and Materials and
    🞇Agri-business their Impact on Presidential Election
    🞇Social Networking Results
    🞇Vegetarianism 🞇 The Impact of Agribusiness on the
    Philippine Economy
    🞇 The Cause-Effect Relationships of
    Social Networking and Online Selling
    🞇 Effects of Vegetarianism on Physical
    Health
    Techniques in Narrowing Down a
    Topic Into a Research Question
    1. Examine the literature.
    2. Talk over ideas with others.
    3. Apply to a specific context.
    4. Define the aim or desired outcome
    of the study.
    Techniques in Narrowing Down a Topic
    Into a Research Question
    1. Examine the literature.
    🞇 Replicate a previous research project exactly or with slight
    variations.
    🞇 Explore unexpected findings discovered in previous research.
    🞇 Follow suggestions an author gives for future research at the
    end of an article.
    🞇 Extend an existing explanation or theory to a new topic or
    setting.
    🞇 Challenge findings or attempt to refute a relationship.
    🞇 Specify the intervening process and consider linking relations.
    Techniques in Narrowing Down a
    Topic Into a Research Question
    2. Talk over ideas with others.
    🞇Ask people who are knowledgeable about the
    topic for questions about it that they have thought
    of.
    🞇Seek out those who hold opinions that differ from
    yours on the topic and discuss possible research
    questions with them.
    Techniques in Narrowing Down a
    Topic Into a Research Question
    3. Apply to a specific context.
    🞇Focus the topic on a specific historical period or
    time period.
    🞇Narrow the topic to a specific society or geographic
    unit.
    🞇Consider which subgroups or categories of
    people/units are involved and whether there are
    differences among them.
    Techniques in Narrowing Down a Topic
    Into a Research Question
    4. Define the aim or desired outcome of the study.
    🞇Will the research question be for an exploratory,
    explanatory, or descriptive study?
    🞇Will the study involve applied or basic research?
    Other Topics of Interest
    1. Body, Health and Lifestyle Issues
    2. Traffic and the Economy
    3. Mobile Hospitals
    4. Popular Culture and Popular Music
    5. Credit Unions
    6. Corporate Social Responsibility
    7. Flood Control
    Other Topics of Interest
    8. Endangered Species
    9. Success Indicators of Entrepreneurial Ventures
    10. Friendship and Its Impact on a Person's well-
    being
    11. Neighbourliness as a Prime Factor in a
    Community's Peace and Order Situation
    Characteristics of a good title
    1. Must be carefully chosen. The topic should be of great
    interest to you.
    2. Informs the reader correctly
    3. Assures proper indexing and facilitates information
    retrieval. (keywords, and proper use of variables
    needed)
    4. Know your intended reader
    Characteristics of a good title
    5. Must inform with the least possible word. Suggested
    number of words 18 to 10 or less. A title is short, clear
    and specific that the relationship among the variables
    has been indicated.
    6. Avoid the words, study of, investigation on, notes on,
    analysis of, comparative- these are in the
    methodology)
    7. A good problem can be completed in the allotted time
    desired.
    8. Specific questions should be quantifiable.
    Choosing a Topic for a Research
    Study
    🞇select a topic that interests and motivates you
    🞇doable" with the resources at your disposal
    🞇within the required time frame
    🞇focused and well-defined
    🞇close to your own personal experiences
    🞇objective
    🞇freed from your personal biases or preferences as a
    researcher
    🞇avoid research topics that involve your making moral
    judgments about certain kinds of behavior.
    Thank You!!!

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