RESEARCH APPROACH
NCMB 311 NURSING RESEARCH 1 | 1st Prelims | 2024-2025
WRITING AN INTRODUCTION TREND. ISSUES. PROBLEMS
● Writing INTRODUCTION section of your ● There's a great disagreement among
research paper perception of male and female police on the
● Remember that the introduction part of concepts of imprisonment
your research paper is the mind setter of the ● Few research attempts habe beendone to
reader to keep them reading. explore music as part of professor's
● Therefore it should be satchy and not so identity.
lengthy, this is to prevent the reader from ● Though cybersex is common in developing
getting bored. countries, no studies are recorded in
● The introduction part of your paper is not a developing countries, specially in the
merely a by-product of copy and paste of Philippines -
the literature, It is the summary of your ● Previous research presents more research
understanding of doing the current questions than answer due ro mismatch of
literature review on the topic of interest. results
● This also include the research question, ● Use of ICT in government, known as
hypothesis, purpose and contribution to the Egovernment, is on the rise with 19% of all
profession. government organizations offering online
● Commonly this is. 3-4 paragraphs with 3-4 services.
sentences each, Keep in mind to do proper ● Explaining user acceptance of lie detector is
citation of your references. often described as one of the most
researched areas in contemporary
T-I-O-C FORMAT criminology literature
● The mediating effects of the internet on
● The T-I-O-C format (OLFU format) may crime proliferations is interesting to
help you construct an enticing introduction investigate
of your research paper. ● As technology impacts teachmg and
learning, expectations for teachers to
exploit technology advantages will rise.
TRENDS
X-REF CITATION STYLES IN INTRODUCTION
● Present an overview of current research on
the issue or problem 1. IMPLICIT
● This may include current data/statistics ● STATEMENT (AUTHOR,YEAR)
● Prevailing tendency ● An e-learning system with higher
● Norm/Popular educational compatibility is believed to
● Commonly occuring effectively facilitate the learning processes
● Definition of students (Xu & Wang, 2006).
1. EXPLICIT
ISSUES/PROBLEM ● AUTHOR_(YEAR)_VERB_STATEMENT
● Taylor and Todd (1995) suggested that
● Identify the gap, problem or gray area of the Social Influence (Si) affects other people' s
topic of interest opinion, superior influence, and peer
● Identify the gap, problem or gray area of the influence.
topic of interest Present literatures/findings
of different authors of the same topic. COMMON VERBS
● Controversy
● Opposing viewpoint ● Report
● Disagreement ● Emphasize
● Difficulty ● Discovered
● Posited
OBJECTIVES ● Advance
● Claim
● Based on the Identified issues/problem ● Propose
state your general research question or ● Reveal
● Intent of the study and hypothesis to fill the ● Argue
gap or answer the Identified problems of ● Contextualize
the topic of interest. ● Believed
● Explain
CONTRIBUTION ● Stated
● Found out
● State the value and relevance of your ● Cited
research, why is your study relevant, what ● Asserte
will it contribute to the profession and the ● Assert
stakeholders and why should we care about
your research.
Trishza Badajos
RESEARCH APPROACH
NCMB 311 NURSING RESEARCH 1 | 1st Prelims | 2024-2025
BOLD ATTEMPT - Researcher Made
CROSS REFERENCED - Cited from previous
researches
BLIND - Conflicting research results
BLANK - No/Few researches done
RESEARCH DATA BASES
1. Stor
2. Google scholar
3. Pro quest
4. Elsevier
5. ScienceDirect
RESEARCH METHODS, DESIGN, TECHNIQUES,
APPROACH
METHOD - WHAT DATA WILL BE GATHERED?
- PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
- past = historical
- present = descriptive
- future = experimental
● Evaluate
- past (historical evaluative)
- present (descriptive evaluative)
- future (experimental evaluative)
● Compare
- past (historical comparative)
- present (descriptive comparative)
- future (experimental comparative)
● Correlate
- past (historical correlational)
- present (descriptive correlational)
- future (experimental correlational)
TECHNIQUE - HOW DATA WILL BE GATHERED?
- INTERVIEW, SURVEY
● Interview - qualitative
● Survey - quantitative
APPROACH - HOW DATA WILL BE PROCESSED?
- QUANTI, QUALI, MIXED
● Quantitative approach - numbers
● Qualitative approach - interview/texts
● Mixed - numbers and interviews
Trishza Badajos