Page 9 - PPW (Paper Proposal Writing)

In a Nutshell

Warming-up

Research-based Paper at a Glance
OBJECTIVE
Read the following excerpt and answer the following questions in your group.

Writing a paper has been a part of academic work. This is mostly aimed at assessing

students in their coursework program (Bailey, 2006). Since there are many fields within
academic world, the format of a paper varies considerably. However, most papers
written in the social sciences, life sciences, nursing, and education have similar In this unit, you are
expected to be able to
structure. Even though different area of study might have different approaches of identify the elements
research, the ways of writing, presenting evidence, and explaining the research process of a paper proposal in
are similar in nature (Huett and Koch, 2011). Those aforementioned elements will be general.

further discussed in the sections that follow this part.
In general, research-based paper follows three research paradigms namely
qualitative, quantitative and mixed method. Denscombe (2007) affirms that the main

difference of those three paradigms lies on the unit of analysis. Quantitative research
tends to be associated with numbers as the unit of analysis. In contrast, qualitative
research tends to be associated with words or images as the unit of analysis. Mixed

method is then the combination between qualitative and quantitative research
paradigm.

Group discussion.

1. Do the research paradigms (Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed) have the same
research paper elements? Mention them.

2. What is/ are the difference(s) between research-based paper and research-based paper

proposal?

Vocabulary

Terms of Research Proposal

Learn the following words and match them with the correct definition.

No Words Meaning
1 View a. Information, especially facts or numbers
2 Provide b. Based on what is experienced or seen

3 Examine c. To give something that is needed

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