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Research Topic Development Guide

This chapter outlines the process of identifying and defining research problems and topics, emphasizing the importance of narrowing down broad issues into feasible research statements. It highlights the need for clear research objectives and questions, as well as the significance of preliminary research and brainstorming in developing a good research topic. The document also encourages collaboration among students to select appropriate research problems for their projects.

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Research Topic Development Guide

This chapter outlines the process of identifying and defining research problems and topics, emphasizing the importance of narrowing down broad issues into feasible research statements. It highlights the need for clear research objectives and questions, as well as the significance of preliminary research and brainstorming in developing a good research topic. The document also encourages collaboration among students to select appropriate research problems for their projects.

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Trương Thị Hòa, Ph.

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By the end of this chapter, student should be able to:
Ø Identify problem areas that are likely to be studied
Ø Narrow down a broad problem into a feasible topic for research using preliminary
research
Ø Develop a good problem statements
By the end of this chapter, student should be able to:

1. Identify a research problem(s)/topic(s)

2. Define the research statement


A good research topic
Appropriateness: Meet the requirements
Capability: Be capable of undertaking
Fulfilment: Have a genuine interest

Source: Saunders et al. (2019)


Identify a broad research any situation where a gap exists
problem/research gap between an actual and a desired ideal

- Background information Brainstorming


Preliminary research - Literature of the subject Discussion
area Notebook

Define the research


Clear research statements
problem/topic

Source: Saunders et al. (2019), Sekaran & Bougie (2016), Nguyen Dinh Tho (2012)
Research objectives:
§ A general research objective: what you intend a good research
to achieve through research statement?
§ A set of detailed research objectives: give § Relevant
more details and show how you plan to § Feasible
structure your research process to achieve the
§ Interesting
general research objective
Research questions:
What you seek to find out/explain/answer
Research statements

Problem Preliminary Research


research topic
General objective: To study factors that
Student -Background: Size The factors affect engineering student dropout
dropout of school in terms that affect intention in UTE
rate is of students, engineering Detailed objectives:
higher lecturers, etc., student -To examine the impacts of increasing
than tuition fee, dropout dropout tuition fee on dropout intention of ES in
expected rate by intention UTE
-To investigate effects of student
departments, ...
satisfactions on dropout intention of ES
-Literature on in UTE
subject area:
Potential Research questions:
How do increasing tuition fee affect
determinants of
dropout intention of ES in UTE?
student dropout How do student satisfaction affect
dropout intention of ES in UTE?
Should be a working title that could simply and concisely
summarize your research objectives/questions
üShow the object of your research
üThe scope of your research

Source: Saunders et al. (2019)


Each group discusses and pick several potential research problems/topics for your
projects
Ø Based on your interest
Ø Appropriate for this course (quantitative study, collecting primary data using
questionnaire)

Looking for some secondary data to give some background information for the problems

ü Brainstorming
ü Discussion
ü Notebooks (Write down the potential research problems for the next steps)

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