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unoriginal. The data that are in these sources

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are based on primary and secondary
- Research is an arduous task that requires not only literature
knowledge but also patience and skill to discover, ➢ Used only as a source for background
create, or revise facts information
- Researchers produce objective papers, not for
fame, but for the sake of discovery
- They convey their results by publishing it to
reputable scientific journals
- The primary medium of communicating the results

SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL
of a scientific research
- A permanent record of all the advancement in the
scientific community
- Becomes the basis of future researches - To ensure the accuracy and authenticity, these
- These researches may validate, modify, improve, or literatures are peer-reviewed.
disprove the existing knowledge - Peer-review – a process in which a research is
evaluated by other scientists and researchers with
Scientific literature vs. Scientific magazine
the same expertise.
Scientific literature • Primary and secondary literatures are always
– authors pay for publishers to publish their work, peer-reviewed
aims to provide knowledge/information • Only a few tertiary literatures undergo this
– main goal is to spread information process
Scientific magazine
– aims to make science interesting, therefore has BACKGROUND INFORMATION
tendency to alter information
– their goal is to make science interesting - Describing the nature or history of the research topic
or problem sing existing literatures as reference
- Divided to three parts depending on originality of the - Used to understand the research topic better,
info and its proximity to the source especially of the researcher is new to the topic
• Primary literature - It is not the focus of your research
➢ Original researches or sources that contains - It is not even included in the research proposal
firsthand information. These information are
gathered by the authors personally. Importance:
➢ Among the types, primary literatures are the ✓ Expands knowledge
most recent and most original. Hence, they ✓ Gives a summary of important researches
are used as a basis for future researches. ✓ Helps refine research topic
➢ Should be 90-100% of the study
• Secondary literature
➢ Publications that largely rely on primary
sources for information. It analyzes,
evaluate, compare, comment, discuss, and
or interpret various information from the
primary literature
➢ Read by researchers to gain an overview
about certain research topics

Example:
✓ Review article
✓ Meta-analysis
✓ Indexes REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
• Tertiary literature - An account or narrative that evaluate the information
➢ Sources that represent a summary or an that are related to the selected research topic
introduction to the current knowledge or - This information came from the works of accredited
research on the topic researchers that are published in scholarly journals
➢ However, this literature is the farthest from - Designated as the 2nd chapter
the source of information and the most - Though this is the 1st chapter to be written

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Purpose:
✓ Provides context to the readers
✓ Shows where the research fits into the
existing body of knowledge
✓ Justify the research and guarantees that
the study has not been done before
✓ Illustrate how the topic has been studies
before
✓ Highlight the flaws, outline gaps, and
reveal inconsistencies of previous
researches
✓ Enables the researcher to learn from
past researches
✓ Refine, refocus, or even change the
topic

- Because of these purposes, RRL is said to be the

backbone of all researches
- Due to its weight, this is one of the most difficult parts
of research
- Reading numerous journal articles is a must
- To lessen the difficulty, researchers take down notes
and carefully structure it

GUIDELINES IN CHOOSING A TOPIC

o Interest in the subject matter
o Availability of information
o Timeliness and relevance of the topic
o Limitations on the subject
o Personal resources

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