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FORMULATING THE RESEARCH GOALS
Discussion
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Another component that you have to include in your research is the goals or
also known as objectives. It formulates what your research is going to achieve. The

research goals or research objectives are the specific accomplishments the
researcher hopes to achieve in the study. The readers are supposed to clearly

understand what the research wants to answer by reading the research objectives.

In quantitative research, the research objectives may lead to the hypothesis.
Meanwhile, in qualitative research which is exploratory (describing what it is rather

than testing an explanation or theory for what is, the objectives will provide an
adequate guide to the research.

Adapted from:http://www.soas.ac.uk/cedep.demos/000_P506_RM_3736-Demo/unit1/page_26.htm

Useful Expressions:

To identify… To estimate… To analyze …
To establish… To find out… To describe…

To determine… To compare… To reveal…

Discussion A GOOD RESEARCH
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QUESTION

The followings are steps to write a good research question for your paper.
1. Decide the general topic of your research that you are interested in.

2. Do preliminary research on the general topic to find out what research has

already been done and what literature already exists. How much research has
been done on the particular topic chosen? What types of studies? Is there a

unique area that yet to be investigated or is there a particular question that may

be worth replicating? The following video may be helpful in learning how to
choose appropriate keywords and search online databases:

https://youtu.be/233DzkmimV4?t=4s
3. Then begin to narrow the topic by asking open-ended "how" and "why"

questions. Create a list of potential questions of factors you might consider in
your research and choose one that interests you and explore it.

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