Closed Questions: Closed questions structure the answer by only allowing responses which fit into pre-decided categories. Data that can be placed into a category is called nominal data. Closed questions can also provide ordinal data (which can be … [Continue reading]
Questionnaire Design
Posted on April 3, 2022 ·
Aims -Make sure that all questions asked address the aims of the research. However, use only one feature of the construct you are investigating in per item.Length -The longer the questionnaire, the less likely people will complete it. Questionnaire … [Continue reading]
PhD Proposal Writing
Posted on April 2, 2022 ·
Understand the purpose - The basic purpose of your PhD proposal is to assist you in completing your research and deliver your PhD Thesis easily.Establish an engaging title - Your title is the first thing that is going to get most of the job done. It … [Continue reading]
Abstract vs Extended Abstract
Posted on March 14, 2022 ·
An abstract generally is few hundred words long while extended abstract normally is 1 to 4 pages with 1 or 2 pages explaining data collected in figures or/and tables.An abstract is a preliminary submission that summarizes the contribution of a paper. … [Continue reading]
Research Design/ Methodology
Posted on March 13, 2022 ·
research design can be categorized into qualitative or quantitative. Qualitative research design determines relationships between collected data and observation based on mathematical calculations. Quantitative research design on the other hand, … [Continue reading]
Choosing the Right Journal
Posted on March 8, 2022 ·
Choosing the right journal for publication may be a painful process. How to choose a correct journal? Here some tips: Understand the strength of your paper. Determine the list of papers that you cited in your paper. Consider to publish your paper … [Continue reading]
Introduction vs LR of an Academic Paper
Posted on March 7, 2022 ·
Introduction is at the beginning of a text while Literature Review (LR) is located after the introduction or problem background.Introduction introduces the main text to the readers while LR critically evaluates the existing research on the selected … [Continue reading]
How to Identify Research Gap
Posted on March 6, 2022 ·
There are 5 important variables to be exploited to identify research gap: Citation Analysis - Scan highly cited papers that probably lead to prominent gaps in your research area. Also, spend time to go through the other papers that cite the … [Continue reading]
LR – Writing Tips
Posted on February 21, 2022 ·
Formation of research question or problemsPreliminary search to validate the idea to assure none had done it beforeSet the inclusion and exclusion criteria based on RQ and preliminary searchSearch strategy: Keywords used, boolean operators and … [Continue reading]
Literature Matrix
Posted on February 17, 2022 ·
After reading, collect the essential information/content from the paper you read by forming a matrix that fulfill the following requirements: Authors info, remember, the same authors may have many similar papers, so always snowball the same … [Continue reading]
