managing your own research

I Made Sujana
EED, Faculty of Education, the University of Mataram

MANAGING YOUR OWN
RESEARCH
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What Factors make successful Academic Writing?
Facilities $ supports
(financial, other fac.)
Students
(readiness, self-confidence
Motivation, personality,
planning, expectation etc.)

Supervisors (time
availability, relationship,

communication,
expectation)

Research method
understanding

Topic selection
Supervisors
St. Current
Knowledge & Level of
English

Reading and analyzing
resources
Academic writing
(including plagiarism)

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What’s Research?
 A systematic investigation into and study of

materials, sources, etc, in order to establish
facts and reach new conclusions (Oxford
Encyclopedic Dictionary)
 What we do when we have a question or a
problem we want to resolve (Somers, n.d.)

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Structure of Research
The "hourglass" notion of research

begin with broad questions
narrow down, focus in
operationalize

OBSERVE
analyze data
reach conclusions

generalize back to questions

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Purpose of Thesis Writing for S1 Degree

 To train students to think logically and

scientifically in solving phenomena/problems
(from identifying, investigating problems,
conducting study, and writing research
report)

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Components of Research Proposal

REFERENCES, RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
 Provide information about problems in the

area being investigated  a guiding concept
to discover new knowledge:
 Posing problems and reasons why it is important

to be investigated; evidence (data) to support
 Formulating Research Questions; Purpose,
Significance of study; etc.

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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
What s Literature Review?

 the methodical investigation of all published
sources for information bearing on a usually
scientific or technological subject (MerriamWebster Dictionary)
 a systematic and critical review of the most
important published scholarly literature on a
particular topic.
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Why review literature?
 To provide background information
 To establish the importance of the study
 To demonstrate familiarity of your topics
 to determine an appropriate research
design/method (instruments, data collection and
analysis methods) for answering the research
question

 To determine the need for replication of a well
designed study or refinement of a study
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What are the steps in writing Literature Review?

Planning

Revising

Drafting

Reading
and
Researchi
ng

Analysing

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CHAPTER 3: RESEACH METHOD
 Related to what are you going to do to solve

problems stated in Chapter 1?

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Components of Chapters III
Kinds of research
Approach used to solve
problems

Quantitative vs Qualitative
(experimental, correlation, CAR
Ethnography, case study, etc.
Research
Approach

What’s Population?

Quantitative
(for data related to
numbers)

What is Sample?
Components
of Chapter

III

Data Analysis

Population
and Sample

How to decide
Sample (Sampling
Techniques)

Qualitative
(for data related to
words)

Kinds of data

Data & Data
Collection
Procedures

Data collection
Procedure

Sources of Data
Research Instrument
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Avoid Plagiarism
What s Plagiarism?
 Quoting/taking other people s work without
giving acknowledgment

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What does it include?
 Using another writer s words without proper citation
 Using another writer s ideas without proper citation
 Citing a source but reproducing the exact word
without quotation marks
 Borrowing the structure of another author s
phrases/sentences without giving the source
 Borrowing all or part of another student s paper
 Using paper-writing service or having a friend write
the paper
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How to Avoid Plagiarism?
 Be honest and be careful

 Always acknowledge ones works

 Paraphrase others ideas and acknowledge

the sources
 Be aware of the uses of direct vs. indirect
quotations
 Don t be lazy to read and rewrite

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Tips in Planning Research Proposal
 Think about whether there is an area of English
language teaching/learning that you want to
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study? Make a list of possible topics.
Is there a specific topic from your list that you
want to work on? Why?
What is your research question?
Do you think that your research question
addresses the issue(s) you raised?
Do you have any external source of information
(i.e. journal articles, web articles, research
reports, etc.) about your topic?
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 What actions you are going to take to realize

your study?
 What research methods are you going to take
to monitor your study?
 How are you going to ensure trustworthiness
of your research?
 What is the timeline of your research?

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