Research Title

ENG 122 (Practical Research 1)

Submitted to
MR. DANILO T. DINOY
Research Instructor
of the Research Department

Submitted by:

GROUP NO.

MEMBER 1
MEMBER 2
MEMBER 3
MEMBER 4
 GRADE AND SECTION

Member 1 (contribution)
Member 2 (contribution)
Member 3 (contribution)
Member 4 (contribution)

Steps Information

MOVE 1

1 Why is your research topic useful,

relevant, important or worth
investigating?

2 What has been found in prior studies

that further support the need for you
to investigate your research problem?

MOVE 2

1 What are the opposing viewpoints or

perspectives regarding your research
topic?

What is the gap in prior research that

you believe has weakened or
undermined the research area?

2 How will you extend prior research to

expand upon or clarify a research
 problem?

MOVE 3

1 How will you fill in the gap?

2 What are the steps that your study

will take in order to reach its
objectives?

Your BOTS matrix will be graded using the analytic rubric provided below:

Excellent Good Fair Needs

 5 4 3 Improvement
2

Background The background The background The background The background

of the Study of the study of the study is of the study is of the study is
X4 contains the missing one of missing two of missing three of
following the important the important the important
elements: elements. elements. elements.
• establishes a
good context of
the research area
• demonstrates
that the study is
relevant and
worthy of
investigation
• indicates the
research gap
• outlines
purposes of the
study
• describes the
purposes in terms
of what the
research is going
to accomplish

Cohesiveness EXCELLENT GOOD ADEQUATE POOR

X2 organization of organization organization of organization
sources with ALL of sources with sources with of sources with
information and TWO THREE FOUR instances
ideas instances of instances of of
presented erroneous erroneous erroneous
logically presentation of presentation of presentation of
and cohesively information and information and information and
and ideas ideas ideas
relevant to and/or and/or irrelevance and/or irrelevance
research irrelevance to to to
 objectives and research research research
other objectives objectives objectives
Literature. and other and other and other
literature. literature. literature.

Grammar, Virtually no There are few There is a There are

Usage and grammatical, (2-5 errors) moderate (6-10 numerous (more
Mechanics spelling or grammatical, errors) number of than 10
X2 punctuation spelling and grammatical, grammatical,
errors. punctuation spelling, and spelling, and
errors. punctuation punctuation
errors. errors.

Format Adheres to all Adheres to the Adheres to most Do not follow the
X2 prescribed most prescribed prescribed prescribed format
format. format but lacks formats but lacks properly.
1 of the 2-3 of the
elements. elements.