GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PAPER - SOCIOLOGY

1. To develop a research question

2. To formulate a research problem.
3. To identify the variable.
a. Dependent variable
b. Independent variable
4. To develop hypothesis
5. To test or prove the hypothesis
a. To review research study
b. To review research article.
6. To summarize the findings of other researcher.
7. To summarize the findings of your research.
8. To document the sources.
9. To provide support to the hypothesis.
10. To evaluate the research studies of others.
11. To analyze a perspective
12. To build the topic of what experts said about the topic.
13. Finally present your thesis with the findings of your studies and compare these findings
with the findings of others.
14. Where they agree
15. Where they disagree