TR406 : Research Methodology

The interactive teaching method is used as the instructor is deliberately encouraging the students to interact by posing a number of questions before and during explaining the lesson.

The students are also engaged in analyzing some abstracts by dividing them into small groups, or improving some parts of researches by considering them critically and improving, if possible.

Main Content

Reading / References / Notes

weeks

Content :Topics (subject matter)for each week

1

INTRODUTORY LECTURE

· The Importance for a research

· The structure of a research

2

Writing Introduction Chapter(1)

· Choosing the Topic

· Developing Research Questions

· The statement of the problem

· The Hypothesis

3

A practical Lecture

4

Writing Literature Review Chapter (2)

· Theoretical part

· Definitions

· Previous studies

5

Writing Methodology Chapter (3)

· Research Design

· Instrumentations

· Participants

6

Writing Results Chapter (4)

· Presenting of Quantitative data

· Analyzing Data

7

Presenting, considering, and analyzing some ready research papers

8

Writing Discussion Chapter (5)

· Interpreting and explaining your results

· Answering your research Questions

· Linking your results with literature

9

Writing Conclusion Chapter (6)

· Summarizing your results

· Recommendations

10

Writing an abstract

· The importance of writing an abstract

· The essential parts of an abstract

· What should not be included in an abstract

11

Analysis of some examples of abstracts and improving them, if needed.

12

Documenting References

· Systems and Styles of Referencing and Citing

13

· Citing Electronic Sources

14

· Analysis of some examples of incorrect citing of sources in-text