IDENTIFYING THE INQUIRY�AND STATING THE PROBLEM

At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

1. Design a research useful in daily life.
2. Write a research title.
3. Describe the background of research.
4. State research question.
5. Indicate scope and delimitation of study.
6. Cites benefits and beneficiary of the study.
7. Presents written statement of the problem.

Research Question

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• Can be derived from a wide variety of contents.
• Can be prompted by your own personal interest or experience.
• Can also be prompted by a theory that you are very much interested.

KARL MARX

• 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
• Marx's theories about society, economics and politics – collectively understood as Marxism – hold that human societies develop through class struggle.

• Various Marxist authors have focused on Marx's method of analysis and presentation (historical materialist and logically dialectical) as key factors both in understanding the range and incisiveness of Karl Marx's theoretical 

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Marx’s Possible Sources of Research Questions

• Intellectual Puzzles and Contradictions
• The existing literature
• REPLICATION
• Structures and Function
• Opposition
• A social problem
• ‘Gaps between official versions of reality and the facts on the ground’
• The counter-intuitive
• New methods and theories
• ‘New Social and technical developments and social trends.
• Personal Experience
• Sponsors and teachers.

CRITERIA

• They should be clear, in the sense of being intelligible.
• They should be researchable
• They should have some connection(s) with established theory and research.
• Your research questions should be linked to each other.
• They should at the very least hold out the prospect of being able to make an original contribution
• The research questions should be neither too broad nor too narrow.

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Are these Statistically researchable?

• Trash in school?
• Factors of absenteeism?
• Factors to focus in studies?
• Overpopulation?
• Global warming?
• Feelings towards others?
• Likeness of food?
• Likeness of furniture or structure?

Scope and Delimitation�&�Benefits and Beneficiaries

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• Problem Statement

Write An opening sentence that entices the reader and stimulates his or her interest to read about your research problem.

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• Objectives of the Research

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Indicate what the research will do, for instance, discover (grounded theory), explain or seek to understand (ethnography), explore a process (case study) and describe the experiences (phenomenology).

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• Scope and Delimitation of research

Indicate the boundaries, exceptions, reservations and qualifications in your study.

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Sometimes referred to as

“Delimitations and Limitations”

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Delimitations – used to address how the study will be narrowed in scope.

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Limitations – Used to identify potential weaknesses of the study.

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• Significance of Research

Mention and elaborate on the central focus or phenomenon being explored or understood in the study.

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• Target Audience

Your target audience is linked to the significance of your research.

Who would be interested in or who would find your study a worthwhile investigation.