Unit 10 Conducting a Research Project or Composing a Research Report（第1页）

Unit10gaResearchProjeposingaResearchReport

Asyouwadethroughtheevidenyoursubject，youwilllearntodisatebetweenusefulinformationandunfoundedorill-ents。Somesources，suchastheI，willprovidetimely，reliablematerialbutmayalsoehworthlessanduedopinions。

—JamesD。Lester

Inthisunityouwill:

&thecrucialstepstoacademigfromtopig，sourcecriticism，applitovalidityayadis

&theprocessfrstagethrought

&thekeywritingskills，anizedalphabetienttroups

·kiohodologyanddesignforthoutdifferenttypesofseguageresearch

Pre-classwork

1。Workwithyourpartneranddiscussthefollowingtopics。

（1）Whydowehavetodoresearch?

（2）Whileortoraresearchproject，whowilldecidethetopic?

（3）Basedonwhaticbedetermined?

2。Theabstractprovidesabriefoverview，thatreaderswillusuallyusetodetermiudyisrelevanttotheirterestsandreseareeds。However，inadditioigapotentialaudienvingpublishers，itisalsoimportanttood，represeforretrievalpurposes。Thus，usefulquestionstoaskwheiforresearchreportsihefollowing:

（）（1）Doesitprovideaciseyetrepresentativeoverviewofthetopidaimoftheresearch?

（）（2）Arethesampleahodsbrieflydescribed?

（）（3）Aretheresultsofthestudysummarized，andistherelevandimportaudyclear?

（）（4）Aretheresearchquestionsulatedandunambiguouslyworded?

（）（5）Doesthestudyfillagapiurebyaddressiivelyunderresearchedareaoranunresolvedproblem?

3。TheLiteratureReviewexplaifortheresearch，togetherwithdetailsaboutthefindihs，andweaknessesofpreviousstudiesinthearea。Helpfulquestioheliteraturereviewinthegphasesofresearcludethefollowi____。

a。Areallrelevantstudiessurveyed?

b。Doesthereviewprovideanadobjectivesummaryofthetstateoftheartaicalframeworkofthestudy?

c。Doesthereviewpresehenoughbadtouaudyfitsinwithotherresearch?

d。Nowthatthestudyiscluded，areanyanizationalgesornewinstotheliteraturereviewobettertextualizethedisoftheresults?

&heresearchquestionsappropriateforthetheoreticalframework?

f。Istheliteraturereviewrelevant;thatis，arestudiesthatareperipheraltoorirrelevanttotheresearchquestionexcluded?

g。Whyisthetralresearworthiiforwhythestudyisiingclearlypresented?